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CAUSES OF SICKNESS.
There has been no specially noteworthy cause of sickness
during the past five years. Winter and Spring have been
associated with considerable prevalence of influenza and
catarrhal conditions but there has been no serious epidemic
of influenza of the severe type of 1918 and 1919.
HOSPITALS PROVIDED OR SUBSIDISED BY
THE LOCAL AUTHORITY OR BY THE
COUNTY COUNCIL.
(1) Tuberculosis.
Treatment of Tuberculosis is in the hands of the Middlesex
County Council who possess a County Sanatorium at
Harefield.
Patients are also sent to Clare Hall Sanatorium at South
Mimms, and to various other hospitals and Sanatoria under
County Council arrangements.
Cases of non-pulmonary Tuberculosis, both from this
and other districts, are treated in the Hendon Cottage Hospital
under arrangements made by the Middlesex County
Council.
(2) Maternity.
There is no Maternity Hospital in the district. (Patients
are frequently admitted to Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital
in Marylebone, or to Cedar Lawn Lying-in Home in
Hampstead, and to St. Mary's Hospital, Hampstead, but not
under official arrangements).
(3) Children.
There is no Children's Hospital in the district. (Children
over 5 years of age are admitted to the Hendon Cottage
Hospital, which is a purely voluntary Hospital, and children
of all ages to the London Children's Hospitals).
(4) Fever.
The Hendon Urban District Council provides an Isolation
Hospital.