London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases Classified in Age Groups
| Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Diphtheria | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paralytic | Non-Paralytic | |||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Numbers originally notified | 149 | 138 | 61 | 55 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 60 | 72 | - | - |
| Numbers corrected : Under 1 year | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | - | - | |
| i—2 years | 15 | 8 | 8 | 16 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 16 | - | - |
| 3—4 years | 19 | 25 | 18 | 12 | - | - | - | - | 19 | 15 | - | - |
| 5—9 years | 107 | 90 | 31 | 20 | - | - | - | - | 27 | 33 | - | - |
| io—14 years | 2 | 10 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| 15—24 years | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| 25 and over | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Age unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 148 | 138 | 61 | 55 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 60 | 72 | 1 | - |
| Acute Pneumonia | Dysentery | Smallpox | Acute Encephalitis | Enteric or Typhoid Fever | ||||||||
| Infective | Post-Infectious | |||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Numbers originally notified | 110 | 94 | 104 | 121 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Numbers corrected: Under 5 years | 19 | 11 | 18 | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5—14 years | 25 | 19 | 24 | 27 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15—44 years | 26 | 31 | 21 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 45—64 years | 30 | 22 | 8 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 65 and over | 10 | 11 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 110 | 94 | 74 | 89 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fevers | Erysipelas | Meningococcal Infection | Food Poisoning | Other Notifiable Diseases | ||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | Original | Corrected | |||
| Numbers originally notified...... | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 41 | 37 | M | F | M | F |
| Malaria | ||||||||||||
| Numbers corrected : Under 5 years | 1 | - | X | - | ||||||||
| - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | Ophth. Neonatorum | |||||
| 5—14 years | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | ||||
| 15—44 years | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 45—64 years | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 65 and over | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | Puerperal Pyrexia | |||
| 15-20 years 4 | ||||||||||||
| 20-35 years 47 | ||||||||||||
| 35-45 years 3 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 54 | |||