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To obtain comparative figures regarding the
winter respiratory diseases, it is a custom of the
Department to consider winter to begin at the week
ending the first Saturday in October, and to end with
the week ending the last Saturday in March.
In the winter 1937/38 fifty-six cases, in 1938/39
seventy-five cases, in 1939/40 sixty-one cases, and in
the winter 1940/41 eighty-two cases of Acute Primary
Pneumonia and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia were notified
while the numbers of deaths from allied respiratory
diseases in those winters were 73, 86, 106 and 107.
With regard to 1940, in the first three months
there were 74 deaths and in the last three months
31 deaths, the peak incidence being in March, and
while the number of deaths in the first quarter was
definitely higher in 1940 than in 1938 or 1939 it was
2 less than in the first three months of 1941.
Acton and Wembley Infectious Diseases Hospital.

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