[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of] page 14

Paddington 1930

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

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THE PREVALENCE OF DISEASE.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable under certain conditions in Paddington :
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica. Glanders.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. Hydrophobia.
Acute Polio-encephalitis. Infective Enteritis or Summer Diarrhoea.
Acute Polio-myelitis. Malaria.
Acute Primary Pneumonia. Measles.
Acute Rheumatism. Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Anthrax. Plague.
Cerebro-spinal Fever. Puerperal Fever.
Chicken-pox. Puerperal Pyrexia.
Cholera. Relapsing Fever.
Continued Fever. Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria or Membranous Croup. Smallpox.
Dysentery. Tuberculosis.
Erysipelas. Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
German Measles. Typhus Fever.
The following table summarises the cases of notifiable diseases notified in the years 1920
to 1930

Table: Analysis of Notification Certificates (Uncorrected for Errors in Diagnosis).

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Analysis of Notification Certificates (Uncorrected for Errors in Diagnosis).

	1920.	1921.	1922.	1923.	1924.	1925.	1926.	1927.	1928.	1929.	1930.
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica	2	7	2	3	12	7	4	4	1	5	1
„ Influenzal Pneumonia	45	27	72	33	87	88	76	107	59	135	40
„ Primary Pneumonia	96	105	254	302	369	265	184	183	202	247	168
„ Polio-encephalitis	2	1	—	2	4	3	3	1	1	1
„ Polio-myelitis							3	4	3	1	1
„ Rheumatism	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	(a) 34	76	62	43
Anthrax	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1	-	-	-
Cerebro-spinal Fever	1	2	2	1	1	5	5	3	4	6	3
Chicken-pox	—	—	22	465	395	459	599	461	567	382	516
Continued Fever	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	10	3	2
Diphtheria	461	442	401	219	278	336	462	367	302	311	366
Dysentery	1	2	—	2	1	—	—	—	—	-	-
Erysipelas	81	83	77	54	69	64	76	90	90	69	74
German Measles	71	83	144	48	458	375	124	78	109	1,163	86
Infective Enteritis or Summer Diarrhœa	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	(a) 6	20	63	30
Malaria	24	7	5	2	9	1	1	2	3		1
Measles	1356	80	1973	324	2757	879	1738	154	2862	210	1790
Membranous Croup	3	3	—	1	2	1	1	2	4	6	7
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	29	34	15	22	18	23	16	15	24	9	15
Puerperal Fever	15	16	8	5	9	15	14	7	5	4	5
„ Pyrexia	—	—	—	—	—	—	(a) 17	34	32	42	37
Scarlet Fever	502	827	529	323	290	264	199	320	519	323	356
Smallpox	—	—	—	i	—	—	—	—	5	3	3
Tuberculosis—Total	383	335	312	33h	379	400	356	381	321	335	284
Pulmonary	277	244	204	222	242	231	218	212	196	242	196
Other Forms	106	91	108	116	137	169	138	169	125	93	88
Typhoid or Enteric Fever	19	13	8	13	15	18	12	16	25	19	10
(a) First Year of Notification.

Table: The following table furnishes an analysis of some of the notifiable diseases according to age, sex and ward of the Borough:— 1930.Notifications.A.—Ward Distribution.

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The following table furnishes an analysis of some of the notifiable diseases according to age, sex and ward of the Borough:—

1930.

Notifications.

A.—Ward Distribution.

	Queen's Park.		Harrow Road.		Maida Vale.		Town.		Church.		West-bourne.		Lancaster Gate.				Hyde Park.
	Queen's Park.		Harrow Road.		Maida Vale.		Town.		Church.		West-bourne.		West.		East.		Hyde Park.
	M.	f.	M.	f.	M.	f.	M.	f.	M.	f.	M.	f.	M.	f.	M.	F.	M.	F.
Diphtheria and Memb. Croup	9	15	31	28	23	38	9	13	42	49	44	45	6	9	_	2	5	5
Typhoid and Continued Fever	—	1	—	2	2	1	—	—	—	1	—	—	1	—	1	2		1
Erysipelas	3	5	2	6	8	6	1	1	1	8	8	15	1	1	—	3	2	3
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	—	—	2	1	1	1	1	1	4	1	1	1	—	—	-	-	-	1
Pneumonia—A. Influenzal	2	—	3	—	3	9	—	2	8	5	2	4	-	-	-	-	2	-
„ A. Primary	14	5	15	5	14	11	7	—	21	31	19	18	1	2	1	1	2	1
Puerperal Fever	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	1	—	2	—	—	—	1	-	-
„ Pyrexia	—	—	—	6	—	3	—	5	—	10	—	8	_	2	_	2	-	1
Scarlet Fever	13	17	29	39	21	20	19	11	36	36	31	45	7	8	3	3	10	8

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Table: Analysis of Notification Certificates (Uncorrected for Errors in Diagnosis).

Table: The following table furnishes an analysis of some of the notifiable diseases according to age, sex and ward of the Borough:— 1930.Notifications.A.—Ward Distribution.