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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 1931
[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 Borough are indicated in Table V and are compared with those for the previous ten years:—
TABLE v.
| Disease | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Diphtheria | 186 | 282 | 56 | 61 | 40 | 72 | 53 | 68 | 90 | 129 | 83 |
| Scarlet Fever | 665 | 487 | 142 | 123 | 107 | 156 | 136 | 313 | 231 | 264 | 154 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 8 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | 9 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 26 | 18 |
| Pneumonia: | |||||||||||
| Primary | 21 | 33 | 32 | 47 | 57 | 47 | 66 | 73 | 100 | 78 | 96 |
| Influenzal | 17 | 22 | 7 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 38 | 13 | 59 | 12 | 18 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | – | – | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | – |
| Malaria | 3 | 4 | 2 | – | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| Erysipelas | 27 | 22 | 17 | 25 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 24 | 34 | 20 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Tuberculosis:— | |||||||||||
| (a) Pulmonary | 80 | 69 | 92 | 74 | 90 | 93 | 89 | 99 | 109 | 111 | 141 |
| (6) Non-Pulmonary | 23 | 16 | 26 | 31 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 24 | 27 | 22 | 27 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 13 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Total | 1036 | 955 | 393 | 412 | 381 | 442 | 469 | 665 | 675 | 700 | 577 |