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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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The number of cases of infectious disease originally
notified sometimes varies due to changes of diagnosis and
the following table is therefore given to show the final numbers after correction.
| Disease | Disease | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | _ | Food Poisoning | 12 |
| Diphtheria | _ | Meningococcal Infection | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 232 | Malaria | 1 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | _ | Dysentery | 238 |
| Erysipelas | 19 | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 67 | Tuberculosis | |
| Pneumonia | Pulmonary | 97 | |
| Primary | 94 | Non-Pulmonary | 8 |
| Influenzal | 57 | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | Measles | 975 |
| Acute Encephalitis Infective | _ | Whooping Cough | 85 |
| Post Infectious | _ | Total | 1, 896 |