[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing] page 9

Ealing 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
The number of cases of infectious disease notified in the Borough
in the past twelve years is shown in the following table.

Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified in the Borough.

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Cases of Infectious Disease notified in the Borough.

Disease	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Smallpox	_	_	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Diphtheria	142	92	33	48	28	13	17	14	29	11	13	16
Scarlet Fever	383	303	116	166	180	448	228	340	232	133	204	176
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid)	2	5	4	5	_	1	-	-	-	-	3	8
Puerperal Pyrexia	46	40	30	30	39	41	42	47	35	27	25	27
Pneumonia : Primary	83	50	66	97	105	123	142	110	114	127	189	163
Influenzal	18	26	10	27	17	40	9	14	16	3	6	10
Acute Poliomyelitis	6	1	1	9	2	2	2	3	4	46	10	34
CerebroSpinal Fever	1	-	7	15	5	1	-	6	6	10	2	14
Malaria	-	-	1	1	2	-	-	-	-	1	2	-
Dysentery	12	2		3	6	5	24	60	10	5	7	23
Erysipelas	41	37	29	26	36	41	30	26	31	38	32	13
Polio-Encephalitis Tuberculosis :	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	4	3
Pulmonary	142	149	156	195	223	233	173	194	275	204	206	205
Non-Pulmonary Ophthalmia	33	38	30	28	38	51	30	23	33	25	27	32
Neonatorum	15	16	5	2	8	4	3	3	3	5	-	5
Total	924	759	488	653	689	1004	700	840	788	641	730	706

Table: The number of cases of infectious disease originally notified sometimes varies due to changes of diagnosis and the following table is therefore given to show the final numbers after correction.

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The number of cases of infectious disease originally notified sometimes varies due to changes of diagnosis and the following table is therefore given to show the final numbers after correction.

Disease	1949	Disease	1949
Smallpox	—	Cerebro-Spinal Fever	8
Diphtheria	—	Malaria	—
Scarlet Fever	175	Dysentery	20
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid)	5	Erysipelas	12
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid)	5	Polio-Encephalitis Tuberculosis:	3
Puerperal Pyrexia Pneumonia:	26	Polio-Encephalitis Tuberculosis:	3
Puerperal Pyrexia Pneumonia:	26	Pulmonary	205
Primary	164	NonPulmonary	32
Influenzal	10	Ophthalmia Neonatorum	4
Acute Poliomyelitis	19	Ophthalmia Neonatorum	4
		Total	660

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified in the Borough.

Table: The number of cases of infectious disease originally notified sometimes varies due to changes of diagnosis and the following table is therefore given to show the final numbers after correction.