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The provision for Hospital isolation, etc., is stated on
pages 79 and 80. Disinfection is at present carried out at the disinfecting
station at the Small-pox Hospital at Summers Lane.
Plans are being prepared for the erection of a new disinfecting
station in connection with the new dust destructor, which
is shortly to be provided.
Wherever infectious disease occurs in the families of
persons connected with the preparation for sale or distribution
of articles of food, especially milk, the greatest care is
exercised to prevent the spread of disease in this way. There
was nothing to suggest that any of the cases which occurred
during 1913 were spread through the agency of water, milk,
or other food.
Scarlet Fever.
93 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified during the year.
A reference to the chart will show that the cases were fairly
evenly spread over the whole year. There was no particular
grouping in any district, and the "spot map" shows that the
cases were scattered throughout the district. The 93 cases
represent infection in 77 houses, as 16 of the cases were
"secondary." 83 cases were- removed to hospital: this equals
89.2 per cent. of number notified.
"Return Cases " of Scarlet Fever.
5 cases of Scarlet Fever occurred in 4 houses to which
convalescents had recently returned from the Isolation Hospital.
3 of these occurred within 4 days of the home-coming
of the alleged infecting patient, 1 within 21 days, and 1
within 14 days. All the cases were investigated, and there
was no doubt whatever that every care had been taken by
the hospital authorities. All the patients had been isolated
over six weeks, and were free from all abnormal conditions
when they left hospital. The number of Finchley cases discharged
from the hospital during the year was 73.