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Ealing 1948

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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14
Cases of Infectious Disease occurring in the Borough.
Disease
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
Smallpox












Diphtheria
123
142
92
33
48
28
13
17
14
29
11
13
Scarlet Fever
317
383
303
116
166
180
448
228
340
232
133
204
Enteric Fever
(including
Paratyphoid)
5
2
5
4
5
_
1
3
Puerperal Pyrexia
24
46
40
30
30
39
41
42
47
35
27
25
Pneumonia:
Primary
60
83
50
66
97
105
123
142
110
114
12 7
189
Influenzal
37
18
26
10
27
17
40
9
14
16
3
6
Acute Poliomyelitis
7
6
1
1
9
2
2
2
3
4
46
10
Cerebro-Spinal Fever
1
1

7
15
5
1

6
6
10
2
Malaria



1
1
2




1
2
Dysentry
5
12
2

3
6
5
24
60
10
5
7
Erysipelas
27
41
37
29
26
36
41
30
26
31
38
32
Polio-Encephalitis






1



6
4
Tuberculosis:
Pulmonary
178
142
149
156
195
223
233
173
194
275
204
206
Non-Pulmouary
37
33
38
30
28
38
5i
30
23
33
25
27
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
7
15
16
5
2
8
4
3
3
3
5

Total
832
924
759
488
653
689
1004
700
840
788
641
730