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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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| Tuberculosis | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Meninges & C.N.S. | Other | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Numbers originally notified : Total (All Ages) | 66 | 66 | - | - | 5 | 12 |
| Final numbers ofter correction : | ||||||
| Under 5 years | 3 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - |
| 5—14 years | z | 2 | - | - | - | 2 |
| 15—24 years | 13 | 24 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| 25—44 years | 23 | 26 | - | - | 1 | 4 |
| 45—64 years | 23 | 11 | - | - | 1 | 3 |
| 65 and over | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | X |
| Age unknown | ||||||
| Total (All ages) | 66 | 66 | - | - | 5 | 12 |
The number of cases of infectious disease notified in the Borough
in the past twelve years is shown in the following table :
Cases of Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases notified in the Borough.
| Disease | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | i95i | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | 13 | 17 | 14 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 448 | 228 | 340 | 232 | 133 | 204 | 176 | 294 | 203 | 402 | 238 | 287 |
| Enteric Fever (including | ||||||||||||
| Paratyphoid) | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 41 | 42 | 47 | 35 | 27 | 25 | 27 | 24 | 38 | 70 | 61 | 54 |
| Pneumonia: | ||||||||||||
| Primary | 123 | 142 | 110 | 114 | 127 | 189 | 163 | 173 | 162 | 100 | 157 | 152 |
| Influenzal | 40 | 9 | 14 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 38 | 28 | 74 | 52 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 46 | 10 | 34 | 42 | 10 | 21 | 13 | 5 |
| Meningococcal | ||||||||||||
| Infection | 1 | - | 6 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 2 | - | - | 6 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 5 | 24 | 60 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 542 | 179 | 132 | 225 |
| Erysipelas | 41 | 30 | 26 | 31 | 38 | 32 | 13 | 24 | 17 | 26 | 18 | 18 |
| Polio-Encephalitis | 1 | - | - | - | 6 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Tuberculosis: | ||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | 233 | 173 | 194 | 275 | 204 | 206 | 205 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 205 | 132 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 51 | 30 | 23 | 33 | 25 | 27 | 32 | 41 | 24 | 29 | 20 | 17 |
| Ophthalmia | ||||||||||||
| Neonatorum | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | - | 5 | 3 | 6 | - | - | 2 |
| Measles | 2058 | 127 | 2330 | 791 | 806 | 1379 | 1450 | 1016 | 3296 | 993 | 2558 | 132 |
| Whooping Cough | 450 | 380 | 236 | 271 | 310 | 383 | 303 | 274 | 550 | 77 | 491 | 116 |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | 23 | 86 | 26 | 31 | 78 |
| Totals | 3512 | 1207 | 3046 | 1850 | 1757 | 2492 | 2503 | 2174 | 5190 | 2165 | 4004 | 1,284 |