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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 1901
Report on the vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1901
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| Fatality among— | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. |
| Hospital Cases | 19.2 | 16.6 | — | 7.2 | 7.1 | 13.1 | 17.6 |
| Home Cases | 22.7 | 38.4 | 31.0 | 61.9 | 17.1 | 35.7 | 14.7 |
| All Cases | 21.4 | 25.8 | 15.5 | 22.6 | 10.2 | 18.6 | 16.3 |
| Percentage of Notified Cases Removed | 37.1 | 58.0 | 51.1 | 60.0 | 77.5 | 76.1 | 63. 0 |
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The figures given above indicate pretty clearly that the notification of this disease, or these diseases,
is not of the same character as is that of the other diseases. In 1900 either all the cases were not
reported or the certification of the causes of death was based on a different plan.
The following were the total numbers of such deaths and of births registered in each Registration Sub-District during 1901:—
| 1901. | St. Mary. | St. John. | North-West Paddington. |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | — | — |
| Accidents and Diseases of Childbirth | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| Births registered | 2,536 | 389 | 434 |
| Mortality, per cent, of births | 0.27 | 0.25 | 0.23 |
| 1901. | 1900. | 1899. | 1898. | 1897. | |
| Deaths recorded | 51 | 38 | 53 | 50 | 55 |
| Mortality | 0.35 | 0.26 | 0.37 | 0.35 | 0.39 |
The deaths from this disease were 4 below the average for the decennium, the three
Sub-Districts sharing in the slight diminution. The figures given above show that the annual
variation' is but slight, the disease being prevalent to an almost equal extent each year. The
disease is only limited to young children, in its fatal form at least, and the mortality-rate should be
calculated on the numbers living at ages under 5 years.
The variations in the mortality in the adjacent districts is but slight, if Willesden be excluded,
ranging from 0 26 in "Westminster to 0.35 in Kensington (Table 24). In Willesden the mortality
was 0.52.
The mortality in "Rest of England and Wales" (Rural England) (0.25) was the only one
below the local rate (Table 26).