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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 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: Table v., showing the localities in which deaths from the seven principal Zymotic diseases occurred during the third quarter of the year1880.

Table v., showing the localities in which deaths from the seven principal Zymotic diseases occurred during the third quarter of the year1880.

NAMES OF PLACES.Smallpox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhoid Fever.Diarrhœa.Total.
St. Mart's Sub-District.
Carlton Bridge Terrace..................11
Westbourne Park Crescent......2............2
Woodchester Street..................22
Queen's Arms Yard............1......1
Oliver Place...1...............1
Elgin Terrace............1......1
Harrow Road.........1.........1
Senior Street...............156
Clifton Gardens.........1............1
Cuthbert Street..................11
Braden Street...1...............1
Clarendon Street..................33
Canterbury Boad...............1...1
Chippenham Boad..................11
Alexander Street............1......1
Clarendon Gardens..................11
Formosa Street..................11
Edgware Place..................11
Waverley Boad.........1......12
Cirencester Street..................33
Hermitage Street............2...13
Ed brook Boad..................11
Carlton Mews..................11
Goldney Boad...1...............1
Elgin Boad......1.........12
Errington Boad............1......1
Amberley Boad..................22
Ledbury Boad..................22
Warlock Boad..................11
Blomfield Boad..................22
Hampden Street......1.........45
North Wharf Boad...1......1...13
Dudley Street............2......2
Artesian Boad..................11
Kilburn Park Boad..................11
Bichmond Boad...1...............1
Hasboro' Street..................11
Hethpool Street..................11
Elgin Mews............1......1
Desboro' Terrace..................22
Johnson's Mews..................11
Bridge Terrace..................11
Southam Street..................11
Woodfield Place..................11
Blomfield Terrace.........1.........1
Pickering Place............1......1
Church Street...............1...1
Total St. Mary's Sub-Dis....5441134673

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* The abbreviation "Hosp." signifies that the death occurred in the Hospital.
Flooding of Houses in the Parish.
In the month of July my attention was called to the
flooding of the basements of certain houses in Westbourne
Grove, Delamere Crescent. Bristol Gardens, and Emily Street.
Similar floodings had occurred in other parishes, viz., in
Holloway, Islington, St. Pancras, and Chelsea. In Chelsea,
I was told, the water rose to a height of 4 feet in the basements
of some of the houses.
My attention was particularly directed to Westbourne
Grove. Upon enquiry, I learned at one house that the whole
of the basement had been inundated with water, mixed with
sewage, to a depth of 12 inches; some 2 or 3 inches above
the skirting board in the kitchen. I was informed that
the same thing had happened in the same premises some
eight or ten times during the last ten years; in fact, whenever
there had been such exceptional rain-storms as had then
occurred.