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Acute Poliomyelitis: Annual Corrected Notifications & Deaths, England & Wales 1912-2007

 

Notifications

 Deaths

 

Year

Acute poliomyelitis (paralytic)

Acute polio-encephalitis (non-paralytic)

Total poliomyelitis

Total Deaths*

Excluding late effects

1912

839

0

839

*0

 

1913

745

0

745

*0

 

1914

509

0

509

*177

 

1915

517

0

517

*172

 

1916

688

0

688

*190

 

1917

354

0

354

*168

 

1918

228

0

228

*237

 

1919

553

62

615

*179

 

1920

293

36

329

*134

 

1921

488

51

539

*169

 

1922

355

31

386

*136

 

1923

587

57

644

*119

 

1924

777

83

860

*157

 

1925

371

51

422

*156

 

1926

1158

138

1296

*235

 

1927

801

94

895

*182

 

1928

452

89

541

*167

 

1929

531

91

622

*140

 

1930

506

85

591

*164

 

1931

339

55

394

*98

 

1932

656

94

750

*178

 

1933

711

83

794

*202

 

1934

589

81

670

*135

 

1935

630

67

697

*145

 

1936

528

52

580

*102

 

1937

758

95

853

*152

 

1938

1485

96

1581

*254

 

1939

732

87

819

*142

 

1940

938

128

1066

*159

 

1941

861

79

940

*155

 

1942

545

91

636

*123

 

1943

398

46

444

*88

 

1944

438

57

495

*97

 

1945

748

73

821

*126

 

1946

600

55

655

*116

 

1947

7095

551

7646

*688

 

1948

1674

155

1829

*239

 

1949

5439

479

5918

*657

 

1950

5565

2195

7760

*755

 

1951

1529

1085

2614

217

191

1952

2747

1163

3910

295

275

1953

2976

1571

4547

338

320

1954

1319

641

1960

134

112

1955

3712

2619

6331

270

241

1956

1717

1483

3200

137

114

1957

3177

1667

4844

255

226

1958

1419

575

1994

154

129

1959

739

289

1028

87

66

1960

257

121

378

46

23

1961

707

169

876

79

59

1962

212

59

271

45

18

1963

39

12

51

38

35

1964

29

8

37

29

4

1965

55

36

91

19

3

1966

19

4

23

22

1

1967

16

3

19

15

0

1968

19

5

24

15

0

1969

9

1

10

10

0

1970

6

0

6

19

0

1971

6

1

7

23

0

1972

3

2

5

15

0

1973

4

1

5

17

3

1974

5

1

6

23

0

1975

2

1

3

17

0

1976

10

3

13

25

1

1977

15

1

16

15

0

1978

3

0

3

18

0

1979

6

2

8

20

0

1980

2

1

3

21

0

1981

2

0

2

24

0

1982

2

0

2

19

0

1983

4

0

4

21

0

1984

0

0

0

38

0

1985

3

1

4

29

0

1986

2

1

3

34

1

1987

3

0

3

21

0

1988

1

1

2

27

3

1989

1

0

1

29

0

1990

1

0

1

1

 

1991

2

2

4

0

 

1992

2

1

3

0

 

1993

1

0

1

0

 

1994

0

0

0

1

 

1995

1

0

1

1

 

1996

0

1

1

1

 

1997

2

0

2

n/a

 

1998

2

0

2

n/a

  

1999

0

0

0

n/a

  

2000

0

0

0

n/a

  

2001

0

0

0

n/a

  

2002

0

0

0

n/a

  

2003

0

0

0

n/a

 

2004

 0 0 0 n/a  

2005

 0 0 0 n/a  

2006#

 0 0 0 n/a  

2007#

 0 0 0 n/a  

* Deaths include late effects
# Provisional
Source: Communicable Statistics Series MB3


Last reviewed: 29 December 2011