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Ealing 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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SCARLET FEVER,
269 cases were notified against 232 in 1958.
SMALLPOX.
No cases occurred but 8 persons were kept under
surveillance on landing from ships in which a case had
been reported
TUBERCULOSIS,
There were 105 pulmonary notifications, 73 males and
32 females.There were 5 male non-pulmonary cases and 5
female non-puimonary cases. There were 5 pulmonary deaths
and 1 non pulmonary death, in 1958 there were 10 pulmonary
deaths and no non-pulmonary deaths.
WHOOPING COUGH
There were 80 notifications, practically the same as
in the previous year. 1,240 infants were immunised against
Whooping Cough in Ealing in 1959.