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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 1960
[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 Malaria
Diphtheria Dysentery 247
Scarlet Fever 116 Erysipelas 17
Enteric Fever (including Tuberculosis:
Paratyphoid) 1 Pulmonary 87
Puerperal Pyrexia 63 Non-Pulmonary 18
Pneumonia: Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3
Primary 30 Measles 50
Influenzal 16 Whooping Cough 258
Acute Poliomyelitis -
Food Poisoning 15 Total 922
Meningococcal Infection 1