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Paddington 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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housing.
which may be regarded as a close approximation of the true numbers. Hence practically the
whole of the error in the estimate of the population of the Borough will fall in the figure used
as the population of the "Rest of the Borough," and the rates given for the "Rest" are
too low.
TABLE 47.
| Disease. | Registered Streets. | Rest of Borough. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909. | 1910. | 1909. | 1910. | |
| Morbidity*- | ||||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 2.01 | 0.89 | 1.03 | 0.74 |
| Erysipelas | 1.57 | 1.68 | 0.57 | 0.52 |
| Scarlet Fever | 10.58 | 2.74 | 3.27 | 1.55 |
| Enteric (and Continued) Fever | 0.37 | 0.50 | 0.16 | 0.23 |
| Puerperal Fever | 0.05 | 0.17 | 0.01 | 0.04 |
| All Diseases | 14.62 | 6.03 | 5.06 | 3.14 |
| Mortality*— | ||||
| Small-pox | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | 1.03 | 2.01 | 0.12 | 0.29 |
| Scarlet Fever | 0.43 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.03 |
| Whooping Cough | 1.25 | 0.44 | 0.09 | 0.20 |
| Diphtheria | — | 0.33 | 0.08 | 0.02 |
| Enteric Fever | — | — | 0.02 | 0.03 |
| Diarrhoeal Diseases | 1.41 | 1.00 | 0.09 | 0.25 |
| Erysipelas | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.01 | |
| Puerperal Fever | — | — | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Phthisis | 2.06 | 1.50 | 0.92 | 0.74 |
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 0.76 | 0.83 | 0.21 | 0.20 |
| Alcoholism | 0.32 | — | 0.03 | 0.06 |
| 1.35 | 0.94 | 0.98 | 1.10 | |
| Premature Birth | 0.76 | 0.66 | 0.31 | 0.35 |
| Developmental Diseases | 1.46 | 1.34 | 0.40 | 0.31 |
| Bronchitis | 3.26 | 2.29 | 1.09 | 0.94 |
| Pneumonia | 2.39 | 2.46 | 0.91 | 0.72 |
| Cirrhosis of Liver | 0.10 | — | 0.04 | 0.08 |
| Accidents and Diseases of Parturition | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0.05 |
| Suicides | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.15 | 0.08 |
| Other Causes | 9.51 | 7.82 | 5.44 | 6.75 |
| All Causes | 26.32 | 22.08 | 11.12 | 10.48 |
| * Rates per 1,000 persons. | ||||
Clarendon Street Area.—The number of one-room tenements enumerated during the
annual cleansing last year was 716, showing a reduction of 51 below the number discovered
in 1909. The number of occupants decreased from 1,889 to 1,762. In 1901 662 one-room
tenements were enumerated, occupied by 1,556 persons. The average numbers of inhabitants
per room was 2.3 in 1901, and 2.4 in 1909 and 1910. Of the one-room tenements 496 (or 69.2
per cent.) were front rooms on the first and second floors, the largest and airiest rooms in the
houses, and 118 (16.4 per cent.) basement front rooms.
The number of tenements in the Area found overcrowded at the annual cleansing was 32
last year as compared with 57 in 1909 and (not less than) 204 in 1901 (the Special Inquiry).
The inhabitants of overcrowded tenements numbered 130 last year, 237 in 1909, and (at least)
1,174 in 1901. The persons living in overcrowded tenements constituted 2.4 per cent. of the
whole number of persons living in the Area last year, 3.9 per cent. in 1909, and 11 per cent.
in 1901. It may be mentioned that the population of the Area was estimated at 7,283