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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Thirty-seven cases of these were certified during
the year classified as follows :—
Scarlet Fever 22
Erysipelas 5
Diphtheria 5
Small-pox 1
Chicken-pox 4
The last ceased to be notifiable in this district on June
24th.
DIPHTHERIA.
The 5 cases of this disease were promptly removed
to the Isolation Hospital of the Hendon Rural Distriet
Council at Stanmore. Some of these were of a severe
type, but there were no deaths amongst them. The
mortality from this disease has fallen in a wonderful
manner since the use of Anti-toxin has become general
and the need for its prompt administration in the first
stage recognised. In two of these cases there was a
history of a block in the house-drain shortly before the
illness developed. In two other cases there was evidence
of the disease having been contracted outside the district.
ENTERIC FEVER.
There was no case of this disease certified in the
the district during 1904.
SMALL-POX.
One case of this disease occurred in the person of a
wandering haymaker in July. This man had been
wandering about for several days with the eruption
out upon him before he was stopped. He finally gravitated
to Wealdstone and applied to the Relieving Officer
for an order for medical attendance, which was given
him. The disease was at once recognised, and the man
sent immediately to the Temporary Isolation Hospital
until arrangements could be made for his removal to
South Mimms Hospital, which was done in about three
hours. The farm upon which he had been working was
at once visited by the Medical Officer of Health, and