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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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| Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Diphtheria | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paralytic | Non-Paralytic | |||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Numbers originally notified | 204 | 198 | 35 | 44 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 508 | 485 | – | – |
| Numbers corrected: Under 1 year | – | – | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | 17 | 9 | – | – |
| 1–2 years | 12 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 6 | – | – | – | 72 | 77 | – | – |
| 3–4 years | 49 | 30 | 9 | 17 | 1 | – | – | – | 130 | 129 | – | – |
| 5–9 years | 129 | 139 | 13 | 7 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 277 | 254 | – | – |
| 10–14 years | 7 | 17 | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | 9 | 9 | – | – |
| 15–24 years | 2 | 3 | – | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 3 | 3 | – | – |
| 25 and over | 2 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | – | – |
| Age unknown | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Totals | 201 | 198 | 35 | 42 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 508 | 485 | – | – |
| Acute Pneumonia | Dysentery | Smallpox | Acute Encephalitis | Enteric or Typhoid Fever | ||||||||
| Infective | Post-Infectious | |||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Numbers originally notified | 69 | 60 | 95 | 84 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Numbers corrected: Under 5 years | 12 | 8 | 26 | 14 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5–14 years | 7 | 10 | 12 | 16 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 15–44 years | 22 | 12 | 9 | 9 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| 45–64 years | 15 | 14 | 4 | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 65 and over | 12 | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Totals | 68 | 60 | 51 | 45 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Paratyphoid Fevers | Erysipelas | Meningococcal Infection | Food Poisoning | Other Notifiable Diseases | ||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | Original | Corrected | |||
| Numbers originally notified | 2 | 9 | 17 | 1 | – | 14 | 10 | M | F | M | F | |
| Numbers corrected: Under 5 years | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 5–14 years | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | ||||
| 15–44 years | – | – | 4 | 3 | – | – | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 45–64 years | – | – | 5 | 9 | – | – | 2 | – | Malaria | (41 years) | ||
| 65 and over | – | 1 | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 1 – | 1 – | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | ||||||||||||
| 15–20 yrs. | 4 | |||||||||||
| 20–35 yrs | 58 | |||||||||||
| 35–45 yrs | 8 | |||||||||||
| Totals | – | 2 | 9 | 17 | – | – | 4 | 4 | 70 | |||