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Paddington 1910

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

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74
housing.
of all tenements inspected. Overcrowding is practically limited to tenements of one and two
rooms. The cases of overcrowding discovered last year, on that basis, represent 6.1 per cent.
of such tenements, as compared with 6.6 in 1909.

Table: TABLE 46.Numbers of Registered Tenements (of less than five rooms) and Inhabitants therein.1910.

TABLE 46.

Numbers of Registered Tenements (of less than five rooms) and Inhabitants therein.

1910.

Rooms to Tenement.Occupants in each Tenement.
1234567891011
TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10
10P10P10P10P10P10P10P10P10P10P10P
1641641...74114315132767730418438135561129176245292125126...........................
24444...274545334988915841711734953599977982376507729728339637119177525202713
366...3672...52143131053171031123801809333921969285198351571231143562119147
4.........111251723583641148182955221831413.........183

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T—number of Tenements containing (P/10) Persons over 10 years of age, and (10/P) Persons under 10 years of age.
Vital Statistics.—The morbidity rate (Table 47) for last year in the "Registered Streets"
was 6.03 per 1,000 persons less than half the rate for the previous year (14.62), the reduction
being greater than that observed in the "rest of the Borough " (from 5.06 in 1909 to 3.14 in
1910). The diminution in morbidity was due to the lessened prevalence of diphtheria and
scarlet fever, the rate for the latter disease (2.74) being less than one-third of the rate
recorded in 1909 (10.58).
The total mortality rate for "Registered Streets" was 22.08 per 1,000 persons last year,
showing a fall of 4.24 below that for the previous year (26.32). In the "Rest of the
Borough" the reduction in the mortality rate was 0.64. The ratio of mortality in the
"Registered Streets" to that in the "Rest of the Borough" was practically unchanged. The
rates from certain selected causes of death during the last two years are given in Table 47.
In the absence of information as to the sex-age composition of the two populations concerned,
it is of little use to lay much stress on the differences in the rates in the two divisions. At
the same time it is highly improbable that the excess rates in the "Registered Streets" from
such causes as measles, diarrhoea, pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisis) and developmental
diseases can be due to differences in the proportions of the two sexes or to the numbers living
at susceptible ages. There is evidently much room for improvement in the circumstances of
life in such streets.
It should be observed here that the differences between the rates for the " Registered
Streets" and the "Rest of the Borough" would be less than those given above if the
estimate of the population of the whole Borough proved to be too high. The rates for the
" Registered Streets " are based on the results of the enumeration made during the past year