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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
SCARLET FEVER.
116 casts notified.
87 cases removed into Isolation Hospital.
29 cases isolated at home.
The incidence, of this disease has been very low indeed
as compared with previous years. The disease was not prevalent
in any particular part of the district, but the cases were
more or less equally distributed over the separate localities
except in Burnt Oak, where only one case occurred
The 116 cases represent infection in 98 houscG.
DIPHTHERIA.
63 cases notified.
32 cases removed into Hendon Isolation Hospital.
9 cases removed into London and other hospitals.
22 cases isolated at home.
Sevetnty-one cases were notified last year, as compared
with 63 this year, shewing a decrease in the incidcnce of this
disease. Eight cases proved fatal. Tracheotomy being performed
in several instances.
TYPHOID FEVER.
6 cases notified.
2 cases removed into London hospitals.
4 cases isolated at home.
Six ca;es have been notified this year, as compared with
26 cases last year, when an outbreak occurred in Child's Hill
district.
Two of the patients were soldiers, one of whom had been
invalided home from France recovering from the disease, but
both were evidently infected outside the district.