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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Ealing 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Certain occupations have been shown to carry a high risk
of this disease and great efforts have been made to improve working
conditions (suppression of dust, regular X-rays) to lessen the risks.
The patient with tuberculosis must be considered in relation
to his family. Adequate accommodation is essential if the risk
of infection to other members of the family is to be avoided. The
Council has made provision for a certain degree of priority in
rehousing on health grounds.
The capacity for arduous work is much diminished in the patient with healed disease, so that a sedentary non-competitive occupation with good conditions is essential. Various schemes have been started recently for special workshops and an interesting experiment has been undertaken along these lines in another area of Middlesex.
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulm'y | Pulmonary | Non-Pulm'y | |||||
| Male | F'male | Male | F'male | Male | F'male | Male | F'male | |
| 0—1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1—5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 5—10 | 3 | 2 | — | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 10—15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | — | 1 | — |
| 15—20 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| 20—25 | 12 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 1 |
| 25—35 | 25 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | — |
| 35—45 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | — | — |
| 45—55 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | — | 1 |
| 55—65 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 65 upwards | 7 | 4 | 1 | — | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| Total | 109 | 100 | 19 | 22 | 31 | 17 | 3 | 3 |
The number of new cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notified
was 209 compared with 205 in the previous year, while the number
of cases of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis was 41 compared with 32
in the previous year. There was a total of 54 deaths (48 Pulmonary,
6 Non-Pulmonary) compared with 70 Pulmonary, 6 Non-Pulmonary
in the previous year.
Whooping Cough.
The relative importance of whooping cough as a cause of
death in infancy has greatly increased with the disappearance of
diphtheria as a serious menace to infant life.
Whooping Cough not only kills but severely debilitates the
children with repeated coughing and vomiting.