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These children were born in a London Hospital, were
transferred when 10 days old to the Abbey Road Home,
Hampstead, and finally sent to Barnet; 5 reached Barnet in
a dying condition; the other 2 were of premature birth, and
died shortly after arrival.
If these children's deaths are to be included in my figures
the Infantile Mortality rate becomes 79 instead of 46. These
deaths cannot have any relation to the Sanitary Condition of
the District, as the children were brought here dying.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The number of deaths from diseases of this class was
3, as compared with 2 in the previous year.
The number of cases of Infectious Diseases notified
during 1914 was 106. Of this number, 36 were Tuberculosis,
and 23 Chicken-pox, which latter disease has been made
notifiable during the period of the war, at the instance of the
Local Government Board, the reason for this step being the
close resemblance of the disease in its early stages to Smallpox,
consequently in the event of an outbreak of Small-pox a
mild case of the disease is not so likely to go unrecognised, as
the Health Department is enabled to exercise a supervision
over cases notified as Chicken-pox, which they would not
otherwise be able to do.