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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 1895
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1895
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TABLE 23. Death-rates from Diphtheria, 1894 and 1895.
| Age-Group. | Paddington. | St. Mary. | St. John. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| 0-1 | 1895 | 1.57 | — | 1.83 | — | — | |
| 1894 | 2.39 | — | 2.80 | — | — | — | |
| 1-6 | 1895 | 3.57 | 2.61 | 3.74 | 3.66 | 2.68 | — |
| 1894 | 4.97 | 7.05 | 6.72 | 8.26 | 1.32 | 1.27 | |
| 5-15 | 1895 | 0.60 | 0.83 | 0.74 | 0.94 | — | 0.58 |
| 1894 | 0.72 | 2.30 | 0.63 | 2.30 | 1.10 | 1.90 | |
Per 1,000 estimated in each age-sex-group.
1895—1 death at ages above 5 years.
1894—3 deaths ,,
last year, and at ages over 5 years, 10.6. Among
the patients removed to hospital the mortality was
16.6 per cent., and among those kept at home, 25.2,
the corresponding percentages for 1894 being 28.1
and 20 .1.*
Whooping cough.—From this disease there were
20 deaths during the year, compared with a decennial
average of 54. Last year's total is the lowest
recorded since 1887—when there were 19 deaths,
the lowest number recorded in any year since 1885.
Last year's death-rate from this cause was 0.16, just
one-third of the decennial mean rate (0.48).
"Fevers."—This term includes the three fevers,
* This reduction in the mortality among hospital patients is worthy of
comment, taking into consideration the fact that the use of the anti-toxin
treatment has during the last eighteen months become general in hospitals,
but is only rarely used in private practice.