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2
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1956
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Acton, W.3.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Acton.
I submit the Annual Report of the health of the Borough of
Acton for 1956.
The Borough has remained free of any serious outbreak of infectious
disease, there being 79 cases of Whooping Cough confined
chiefly to children under nine years of age, and there were 97 cases
of measles as compared with 1955 when 647 cases were notified.
Only six cases of poliomyelitis were confirmed and there were no
deaths from this disease.
The number of deaths from Cancer were 148 as compared with
151 in 1955. As may be seen from the following table the number
of deaths from Cancer of the lung and Bronchus fell from 37 in
1955 to 28.