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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1872
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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3rd of January to the end of December no less than 511 cases
were made known to the Sanitary Department of the Vestry;
and of these, 265, or above 50 per cent of the whole, were
removed at an early stage of the complaint to the hospitals
provided for them, while other steps were taken calculated to
prevent the further spread of the malady.
TABLE VI.
TABLE VI., showing the localities, ages, occupations, &c. of the cases of Small Pox in this Parish during the Epidemic in 1871.
| Streets, Districts, &c. | Cases reported. | Ages. | Occupations. | Vaccination. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | Treated at Home. | Removals to Hospitals. | Under 5. | 5 to 20 | 20 to 40 | 40 to 60 | 60 upwards. | Domestic Servants. | Artizans and Labourers. | Tradesmen. | Profession & Merchants. | Children under 15. | Unknown. | Vaccinatd when young. | Unvaccinated. | Vaccination uncertain. | |
| Praed Street District | 26 | 34 | 60 | 17 | 43 | 8 | 24 | 27 | 1 | .. | 7 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 29 | 11 | 20 |
| Harrow Road District and Streets | 67 | 66 | 153 | 71 | 62 | 39 | 43 | 43 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 32 | 13 | 6 | 69 | 6 | 57 | 37 | 39 |
| Hall Park District | 12 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 3 | .. | 4 | .. | 10 | I | 11 |
| Amberley Road District | 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 5 | .. | 7 | .. | 1 | |
| Kilburn District | 9 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 12 | .. | 9 | 9 | .. | .. | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
| Clarendon, Woodchester & Cirencester Streets | 17 | 17 | 34 | 12 | 22 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 4 | .. | 3 | 15 | 7 | .. | 8 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 17 |
| Hampden Street District | 8 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 5 | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 |
| Westbourne Terrace North District | 11 | 12 | 23 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 12 | .. | .. | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 8 |
| Westbourne Park District | 13 | 17 | 30 | 8 | 22 | .. | 11 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 .. | 17 | 2 | 11 | |
| Woodfield Road District | 14 | 10 | 24 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 4 | .. | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 9 |
| Moscow Road District | 10 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | .. | .. | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 4 | |
| Squares and Mansions | 12 | 30 | 42 | 15 | 27 | .. | 8 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 35 | 1 | .. | 5 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 27 | |
| Mews and Stables | 31 | 23 | 54 | 28 | 26 | 8 | 22 | 18 | 6 | .. | 13 | 10 | 10 | .. | 13 | 8 | 21 | 7 | 26 |
| Other Places | 9 | 16 | 25 | 1 | 17 | .. | 10 | 14 | 1 | .. | 14 | 2 | 4 | 5 | .. | .. | 12 | 13 | |
| 243 | 268 | 511 | 208 | 303 | 71 | 175 | 227 | 34 | 4 | 109 | 140 | 76 | 28 | 127 | 31 | 233 | 73 | 205 | |