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East Barnet Valley 1919

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Barnet]

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TABLE II.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1919. EAST BARNET VALLEY URBAN DISTRICT.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases Notified.Total Cases notified in each Locality.Total Cases removed to Hosp'I.
At all Ages.Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.n 25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and upwards.1.—East Barnet.2.—Barnet Vale.3.—Monken Hadley.4.—Brunswick Park.
Small Pox..............................................................................
Cholera (C) Plague (P)..............................................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)31......82012............273......124
Erysipelas3............2............1......21............1
Scarlet Fever16......3112..................523615
Typhus Fever..............................................................................
Enteric Fever..............................................................................
Fever Relapsing (R) Continued (C)..............................................................................
Puerperal Fever..............................................................................
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis..............................................................................
Poliomyelitis1......1................................................1......
Ophthalmia Neonatorum..............................................................................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis18............1673111421......
Other forms of Tuberculosis2............1......1............2........................
Chicken Pox52114361..................1323115......
*Pneumonia15......1......273293......3......
Polioencephalitis........................................................................
Encephalitis Lethargica..............................................................................
Trench Fever..............................................................................
Dysentry..............................................................................
Malaria1........................1..................1..................
Measles84......126282............275511......
German Measles28......610111............619......3......
Whooping Cough3111........................3............1......
Totals25424614431217310511173140

Isolation Hospital. —Barnet Isolation Hospital, Mays Lane, Barnet. Total available beds 16;
number of Diseases that can be concurrently treated, 3.
*Nearly all the cases of Pneumonia were preceded by Influenza.