Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Cases of Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases notifiable in the Borough
Disease | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 |
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Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Diphtheria | 14 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | ||
Scarlet Fever | 340 | 232 | 133 | 204 | 176 | 294 | 203 | 402 | 238 | 287 | 108 | 159 |
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | - | - | - | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | - | |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 47 | 35 | 27 | 25 | 27 | 24 | 38 | 70 | 61 | 54 | 44 | 71 |
Pneumonia: | ||||||||||||
Primary | 110 | 114 | 127 | 189 | 163 | 173 | 162 | 100 | 157 | 152 | 135 | 113 |
Influenzal | 14 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 38 | 28 | 74 | 52 | 56 | 48 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 3 | 4 | 46 | 10 | 34 | 42 | 10 | 21 | 13 | 5 | 61 | 46 |
Meningococcal Infection | 6 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 3 | 2 |
Malaria | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - |
Dysentery | 60 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 542 | 179 | 132 | 225 | 149 | 193 |
Erysipelas | 26 | 31 | 38 | 32 | 13 | 24 | 17 | 26 | 18 | 18 | 12 | 12 |
Tuberculosis: | ||||||||||||
Pulmonary | 194 | 275 | 204 | 206 | 205 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 205 | 132 | 119 | 134 |
Non-Pulmonary | 23 | 33 | 25 | 27 | 32 | 41 | 24 | 29 | 20 | 17 | 24 | 13 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
Measles | 2,330 | 791 | 806 | 1,379 | 1,450 | 1, 016 | 3,296 | 993 | 2, 558 | 132 | 2,422 | 726 |
Whooping Cough | 236 | 271 | 310 | 383 | 303 | 274 | 550 | 77 | 491 | 116 | 156 | 67 |
Food Poisoning | - | — | — | - | 21 | 23 | 86 | 26 | 31 | 78 | 36 | 26 |
Totals | 3,046 | 1,850 | 1,757 | 2, 492 | 2„ 503 | 2, 174 | 5 190 | 2, 165 | 4 004 | 1,284 | 3,335 | 1,612 |