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Paddington 1870

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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No. 11.
R E P O R T
on the
HEALTH OF PADDINGTON
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING
LADY-DAY, 1870,
B Y Wm HARDWICKE, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Printed by Order of the Vestry.
Vestry Hall; May, 1870.

Table: TABLE ISummary of Weekly Return of Births and Deaths from January 8th,to April 2nd, 1870.

TABLE I

Summary of Weekly Return of Births and Deaths from January 8th,

to April 2nd, 1870.

Week endingSt. Mary's.St. John's.Totals.
Births.Deaths.Births.Deaths.Births.Deaths.
January8413320186151
,,15332719185245
,,2235298134342
,,29412511205245
February5382711164943
,,12382226156437
,,19442211145536
,,26303121135144
March5412819256053
,,12573327198452
,,19392417135637
,,26282017124532
April235461194655
500367218205718572

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During the quarter ending April 2nd 572 deaths were
registered in the two registration districts,—St. Mary's, 367 ;
St. John's, 205. The births were 718. The deaths are more than
100 in excess of the usual amount.
The deaths from epidemic diseases were 92, or 16.0 per cent.
of the whole deaths, being an average of the three last quarters
and not in excess of former ones. Ten deaths were from measles,
31 from scarlet fever, 22 from whooping cough, 11 from diarrhoea,
16 from fever. This last item requires explanation : it includes
deaths returned as: gastric fever 3 ; brain fever 2 ; nervous
fever 1 ; typhoid fever 8. I believe there are no true cases
of typhus. The typhoid are doubtful and complicated with
other diseases.