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Paddington 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SEPTIC DISEASES.
Wards. On the other hand, in comparison with the numbers recorded in 1909, the
increased incidence fell on Harrow Road and Westbourne Wards. (Table 6).
This disease being peculiar to women during the childbearing period of life, taken as
lying between the ages of 15 and 45 years, and the numbers of such women varying
greatly in the populations of different areas, a better idea of the prevalence of the disease
would be obtained by examining the rates calculated on that section of the population, but
exact knowledge of the numbers of such women is, except at the date of each census wanting.
Hence it has been deemed preferable to take the numbers of births registered in the year as
the basis for calculating rates for comparison between the different districts. The results of
such calculations are given in Table 16. The morbidity per 100 births was 0.30 last year, or
0.09 above the mean rate for the five years 1905-09. That rate was higher than the rate
recorded in any of the districts except Willesden (rate, 0.31; mean, 0.24).
TABLE 16.
Childbed Morbidity and Mortality.
| District. | Year. | Puerperal Fever. | Mortality per 1,000. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerperal Fever. | Accidents & Diseases of Parturition. | Total in Childbed. | |||||||
| Morbidity per 100 Births. | Fatality per 100 Cases. | Births. | Women, Aged 15-45 yrs. | Births. | Women, Aged 15-45 yrs. | Births. | Women, Aged 15-45 yrs. | ||
| Paddington | 1910 | 0.30 | 22.2 | 0.68 | 0.03 | 3.43 | 0.18 | 4.11 | 0.21 |
| 1905-09 | 0.21 | 41.1 | 0.77 | 0.04 | 3.03 | 0.18 | 3.80 | 0.22 | |
| London | 1910 | 0.25 | 54.9 | 1.37 | 0.10 | 1.18 | 0.10 | 2.55 | 0.20 |
| 1905-09 | 0.22 | 61.6 | 1.36 | 0.09 | 1.44 | 0.12 | 2.80 | 0.21 | |
| Kensington | 1910 | 0.13 | 40.0 | 1.33 | 0.05 | 2.66 | 0.11 | 3.99 | 016 |
| 1905-09 | 0.22 | 73.9 | 1.26 | 0.04 | 2.06 | 0.08 | 3.32 | 0.12 | |
| Westminster | 1910 | 0.12 | 50.0 | 1.26 | 0.06 | 2.96 | 0.12 | 4.22 | 0.18 |
| 1905-09 | 0.25 | 59.1 | 1.39 | 0'05 | 2.14 | 0.09 | 3.53 | 0.14 | |
| Marylebone | 1910 | 0.07 | 50.0 | 0.72 | 0.03 | 5.08 | 0.30 | 5.80 | 0.33 |
| 1905-09 | 0.21 | 52.2 | 1.01 | 0.06 | 2.62 | 0.15 | 3.63 | 0.21 | |
| Hampstead | 1910 | - | - | - | - | 0.78 | 0.03 | 0.78 | 0.03 |
| 1905-09 | 0.26 | 42.0 | 1.35 | 0.04 | 3.78 | 0.15 | 5.13 | 0.19 | |
| Willesden | 1910 | 0.31 | 41.6 | 1.31 | 0.11 | 2.62 | 0.21 | 3.93 | 0.32 |
| 1905-09 | 0.24 | 52.3 | 1.35 | 0.12 | 2.18 | 0.21 | 3.53 | 0.33 | |
The deaths recorded last year numbered 2, equal to a fatality of 22.2 per 100 cases, a
little more than half the average for the preceding quinquennium (41.1), and notably below
the fatalities recorded in the other districts, Hampstead excepted, where no case of the disease
was recorded last year.