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Paddington 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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tuberculous diseases.

Table: Particulars of the length of treatment of the patients whose illnesses were stated to have been less than three years have been taken out in more detail, and the results are given below:—

Particulars of the length of treatment of the patients whose illnesses were stated to have been less than three years have been taken out in more detail, and the results are given below:—

Duration of Disease (years).Duration of Isolation (months).
0—1—3—6—9—12+
0—3421—
1 —3112—
2—32—1——1

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Lunatic Asylums.—None of the three persons dying in asylums presented any symptoms of
consumption on admission, the disease making itself manifest in all three cases only a short
time before death. One of the deceased persons had been in the asylum seven years, another
three, and the third two.

Table: "Homes."—The information received with regard to these cases can be given most intelligibly in the form of individual case histories, as below :—

"Homes."—The information received with regard to these cases can be given most intelligibly in the form of individual case histories, as below :—

Admitted.Died.History on Admission.
m. 2624, x. '105, xi. 10III 6 years. Notified, July, 1910.
m. 1824, i. '103, iii. '10III 10 months; had been to sanatorium.
m. 502, viii. 10 .19, viii. '10"Cough some years"; Phthisis recognised 6 months. Notified, July, 1910.
f. 3220, x. '0923, iv. '10III one year; previously in Brompton Hospital and Bournemouth Sanatorium.
f. 457, iii. 1023, viii. '10III 12 years; hæmoptysis 5 years ago, and again 2 years ago. In various hospitals and sanatoria.
f. 4228, ix. '0920, vii. '10Pleurisy 18 months ago; Phthisis recognised 3 months.
f. 2012, v. '101, vi. '10Disease in larynx 7 months. Notified 1909.
m. 2519, xi. '1019, xi. '10Admitted to Infirmary, April 30th, 1910; history of 18 months illness. Discharged, August 31st.
m. 43(?) 1, x. '1O .6, x. 10III 3 years; first notified (Poor Law), Jan., 1910. In Infirmary, 26,i.10—4, ii.10 and 18, vii.—30, ix., then to Sanatorium, where he died.

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Notification.— 1 he adoption of voluntary notification has never been advocated, but
between 1903 and the end of 1908, 356 cases were brought to the notice of the Department
by various agencies. During the last two years compulsory notification of cases receiving
treatment from the Poor Law Medical Service has been in operation, and the Medical Officer
of the Paddington Dispensary for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has periodically reported the
numbers of patients attending the Dispensary. The records of the cases known to the

Table: Department prior to 1910, are given in the appended summary :—

Department prior to 1910, are given in the appended summary :—

Total cases reported.Known to have died during yearReported recovered.Original Report not confirmed.Lost sight of removed, &c.Living (known) at end of 1909.
1903.1904.1905.1906.19071908.1909.
190342—2............————
190420...51111———92
190518......1031—1——3—
190657.........17571—21213
190784............14126—81826
1908173...............25113311588
1909629..................65—444516