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re-injected. I have now decided to give one injection of
0.5c,c. A.P.T. to all children on the expiration of 5 years
from the time at which they were first immunized.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Since the beginning of the war there has been an increase
in the number of deaths from tuberculosis of the lungs
throughout England and Wales and, in this respect, Finchley
is no exception.

The notifications for 1941, though not so high as in 1938,
are appreciably higher than in the intervening years but this
increase is partly due to the fact that a number of old cases
of tuberculosis which had not previously been notified were
discovered on following up the medical certificates which were
issued to enable invalids to obtain an additional allowance of
milk.
On the other hand it will be observed that there is a
definite rise in the number of deaths and, on further analysis,
it is found that the increase is not in young adults as in the
last war but in older persons.
The inference to be drawn is that there has been no
definite increase in new cases but there has been an increase
in deaths of those already suffering from phthisis probably
due to the increased stress and strain of wartime.
SCABIES.
This disease may be said to have assumed epidemic