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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 1959
[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
Diphtheria
Scarlet Fever 269
Enteric Fever (including
Paratyphoid)
Puerperal Pyrexia 37
Pneumonia.
Primary 97
Influenzal 57
Acute Poliomyelitis
Food Poisoning 37
Meningococcal Infection 2
Malaria
Dysentery 194
Erysipelas 9
Tuberculosis:
Pulmonary 105
Non-Pulmonary 10
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3
Measles 1,928
Whooping Cough 90
Total 2,838