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Ealing 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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There were 87 deaths from primary pneumonia and 6 deaths
from influenzal pneumonia. Thuro ir. n tmhntaiitial duuliim—frum
The deaths in 1950 which were 77, due to acute primary pneumonia
and 2 due to influenzal pneumonia.
There was a severe outbreak of epidemic influenza in the early
months of 1951, which started from several centres in the North
and spread throughout the country—but the disease appeared to
lose some of its virulence in its passage and was comparatively mild
by the time it reached the Borough.
Only 10 cases were notified, all of which were confirmed cases as compared to 39 in 1951.
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One of these, a paralytic case, a woman of 35 died in hospital
six days after the onset of the symptoms.
It seems likely that Poliomyelitis is now an endemic disease
and mild outbreaks may recur every summer.
We may hope that recent promising lines of research which
have been opened up into the growth and spread of the virus may
lead to some effective method of control and personal prophylaxis