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Ealing 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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while it is far too early to see their eventual place in the scheme of
treatment yet it seems likely that it will not be very many years
before tuberculosis will cease to be one of the prime causes of
death in young adults.
The following table shows the age and sex of the cases notified and the deaths in 1951.
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The number of new cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notified
was 210 compared with 209 in the previous year, while the number
of cases of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis was 24 compared with 41
in the previous year. There was a total of 34 deaths (30 Pulmonary,
4 Non-Pulmonary) compared with 48 Pulmonary, 6 Non-Pulmonary
in the previous year.
Whooping Cough.
550 cases were notified during the year, the largest number
since 1941. There was one death—in a child of nine months.
The disease is one of the spring months, between 10—20
cases weekly from April to June rising to a peak in mid-July and
falling off again in September.
In spite of three years' intensive campaign in the Borough
with combined Pertussis/Diphtheria vaccine, there has been no
reduction in the overall number of cases. A recent report of the
Medical Research Council suggests that the English vaccine has a
" protective factor " of about 3.3 (the child after immunisation is
only 1/3.3 times as likely to catch the disease as an unimmunised
child).