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Ealing 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
The numbers of the various infectious diseases notified in the
whole of the extended Borough are indicated in Table V and are
compared with those of the Borough for the previous ten years:—
TABLE V.
| Disease | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Diphtheria | 36 | 46 | 56 | 186 | 282 | 56 | 61 | 40 | 72 | 53 | 68 |
| Scarlet Fever | 61 | 201 | 171 | 665 | 487 | 142 | 123 | 107 | 156 | 136 | 313 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 12 |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 15 | 16 |
| Pneumonia : Primary | - | 30 | 38 | 21 | 33 | 32 | 47 | 57 | 47 | 66 | 73 |
| Influenzal | — | 33 | 27 | 17 | 22 | 7 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 38 | 13 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | — | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Malaria | — | 40 | 27 | 3 | 4 | 2 | - | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Dysentery | — | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 24 | 22 | 30 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 25 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 28 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| Tuberculosis :— | |||||||||||
| (a) Pulmonary | 110 | 83 | 63 | 80 | 69 | 92 | 74 | 90 | 93 | 89 | 99 |
| (b) Non-Pulmonary | 22 | 25 | 17 | 23 | 16 | 26 | 31 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 24 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 |
| Total | 265 | 503 | 455 | 1036 | 955 | 393 | 412 | 381 | 442 | 469 | 665 |