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Paddington 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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infantile mortality.
49
Deaths from Diarrhœal Diseases.
| Age (years) | 0— | 1—2 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarters 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||
| Sex | m. | F. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | F. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | f. |
| 1905 | 3 (2) | 1 | 4 | - | 28 | 19 | 7 (2) | 6 | _ | _ | _ | _ | 6 | 6 | - | - |
| 1906 | 7(2) | 6 (1) | 3 (1) | 4 | 43 (1) | 40 (1) | 11 (4) | 10(1) | - | - | - | - | 4 | 9 | 4(2) | - |
| 1907 | 1 | 3 | 11 (3) | 2(1) | 7 (1) | 3 | 16 (5) | 6 (2) | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
| 1908 | 5(4) | 4 (2) | 2(1) | 3(2) | 24 (4) | 11 (2) | 11 (3) | 6(1) | 1 | 1 (1) | 1 | - | 9 | 3 | - | 2 |
| 1909 | 3(2) | 2 (1) | 5(2) | 1 | 5 | 11 (1) | 6 (3) | 6(3) | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1910 | 1 (1) | 5 (2) | 3(1) | 4 (3) | 10 | 8 (1) | 16 (4) | 12 (2) | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 5 (1) | 1 |
| Note.—The numbers in parentheses represent the deaths from "enteritis." | ||||||||||||||||
The foregoing analysis relates to 392 deaths from "diarrhœa and zymotic enteritis,"
and 76 from "enteritis," the total deaths of males (260) being to those of females (208) as
125: 100. The annual averages for each sex are compared below with the numbers recorded
last year.
Diarrhœa and Zymotic
Enteritis. Enteritis.
Males. Females. Males. Females.
1910 30 24 7 8
1905-9 37 31 8 5
The changes in the sex incidence of death from these causes shown by the numbers for
1910 are set out below, the figures given being decreases (—) or increases (+ ) per cent, of the
averages for 1905-09.
Diarrhœa and
Zymotic Enteritis. Enteritis. Total.
Males —19 —12 —18
Females —23 +60 —11
Estimates of the numbers of children are not available at the moment, but, having regard
to the reduced numbers of births recorded during the years covered by the analysis, it may be
safely said that the decreases given above are probably too great, and the increase too small.
There has, however, been a greater decrease in the mortality from "diarrhœal diseases"
among males than among females, and some change in the incidence on the sexes, the
deaths among males during the past year (37) being to those among females (32) as
116 : 100.
The extent to which the seasonal distribution of these diseases departed from the normal
in 1907 and 1910, is clearly shown by a comparison of the percentages of deaths recorded in
the four quarters of those years with the averages for the remaining four years of the period
(1905-10).
Quarters. 12 3 4
1907 9 24 22 44
1910 9 14 27 49
"Rest" 10 7 62 21
The deaths from these diseases, as recorded bv the Registrar-General in each of the four
quarters of the same six years in each of the Western Districts of the Metropolis, have been
taken out, but are not reproduced here from considerations of space. During the fourth
quarter of 1907 there was a suggestion of a similar departure from the normal seasonal
distribution in Westminster, where the proportion of deaths in the fourth quarter exceeded
that in the third. Last year in none of the districts (save Paddington) was such variation
manifested. The meteorological elements for the second half of each of the six years, as