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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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| Age | Diphtheria | Combined | Whooping Cough | Reinforcing | Whooping Cough | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | Combined | |||||
| Under 1 | 16 | 108 | 1 | |||
| Age 1 | 23 | 815 | ||||
| „ 2 | 9 | 247 | 15 | |||
| „ 3 | 8 | 40 | 3 | |||
| „ 4 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 118 | 50 | |
| „ 5 | 27 | 12 | 3 | 957 | 150 | 20 |
| „ 6 | 7 | 8 | 284 | 105 | 6 | |
| „ 7 | 4 | 4 | 89 | 30 | ||
| „ 8 | 1 | 1 | 92 | 20 | 3 | |
| „ 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 58 | 10 | 7 |
| „ 10 | 4 | 263 | 19 | 25 | ||
| „ 11 | 1 | 55 | 3 | |||
| „ 12 | 19 | 2 | ||||
| ,, 13 | 12 | |||||
| „ 14 | 5 | |||||
| Total | 107 | 1,260 | 46 | 1,952 | 389 | 69 |
| Diphtheria | 107 | 270 | 113 |
| Combined | 1,260 | 1,429 | 1,501 |
| Whooping Cough | 46 | 70 | 210 |
| Reinforcing | ... 2,341 | 2,536 | 1,155 |
| Primary | 554 (472 Whooping Cough) | 571 | 612 |
| Reinforcing | 172 | 154 | |
Non-Notifiable Diseases.
Weekly returns are received from the head teachers of schools
giving the number of children absent with certain non-notifiable
diseases.
This report is necessarily incomplete since it only relates to
children of school age—but it does give an indication of the
prevalence of these conditions at different seasons and forms an
index of the prevalence of infectious disease from year to year.
These figures represent between one-half and one-third of
the true number of cases present in the Borough during the year.
1952 1951
Chicken-pox 1,234 1,381
Mumps 787 857
Ringworm 3 8
Scabies 5 5