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TABLE 5.
Morbidity Rates.*
Metropolis, Borough, and Districts Circumjacent to the Borough.
Disease.
Paddington.
London.
Kensington.
Westminster.
Marylebone.
Hampstead.
Willesden.
1909
Mean
1904-8
1909
Mean
1904-8
1909
Mean
1904-8
1909
Mean
1904-8
1909
Mean
1904-8
1909
Mean
1904-8
1909
Mean
1904-8
Smallpox
-
0.00
0.00
0.02
-
0.00
0.00
0.00
-
0.01
-
0.00
-
0.01
Diphtheria
1.21
0.99
1.38
1.63
0.96
1.07
1.33
0.92
0.89
0.98
0.49
0.87
1.29
1.93
Erysipelas
0.69
0.83
0.86
0.99
0.73
0.77
0.60
0.64
1.06
1.16
0.31
0.53
0.59
0.57
Fevers
Scarlet
4.14
3.48
3.56
4.25
2.28
2.26
3.49
2.58
3.63
2.80
2.74
2.95
3.92
3.75
Enteric
0.19
0.25
0.21
0.32
0.26
0.24
0.14
0.25
0.16
0.32
0.16
0.25
0.25
0.26
Puerperal
0.01
0.05
0.05
0.05
0.03
0.04
0.02
0.03
0.02
0.04
0.05
0.03
0.04
0.06
* Compiled from Registrar-General's Quarterly Reports. Rates per 1,000 persons.
† Including Membranous Croup.
‡ Including Continued Fever.
The sex-age distribution of the cases reported last year in the Borough is given in Table
6. Of the sex morbidity rates given in the last lines of that table, increases have to be noted
in those due to diphtheria (males, 0.56; females, 0.01), membranous croup (males, 0.01), and
scarlet fever (males, 0.87 ; females 0.51).
TABLE 6.
Ages.
(Years.)
Smallpox.
Diphtheria.
Membranous
Croup.
Erysipelas.
Fevers,
Scarlet.
Enteric.
Continued.
Puerperal.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
0—
...
...
2
1
...
...
2
3
2
2
...
...
...
...
. . .
1 —
...
...
6
2
...
...
...
3
15
14
...
...
...
...
...
2-
...
...
6
6
...
...
...
1
19
18
1
...
...
...
...
3—
...
...
11
7
...
...
...
...
27
26
...
...
...
...
...
4—
...
...
5
11
1
...
...
...
25
29
...
...
...
...
...
5—
...
50
33
1
...
2
2
174
180
2
2
...
...
...
13—
...
...
...
4
...
...
...
1
13
16
...
...
...
...
...
15—
...
...
9
11
...
...
2
9
20
23
5
6
...
...
2
25—
...
...
2
7
...
...
34
42
8
18
8
5
...
...
1
65—
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
All Ages.
...
...
91
82
2
...
42
64
303
326
16
13
...
...
3
Rates,*
1909
...
...
1.40
0.94
0.03
...
0.64
0.73
4.66
3.76
0.24
0.15
...
...
0.03
1904-08
0.01
0.00
0.96
0.93
0.02
0.00
0.89
0.78
3.79
3.25
0.26
0.24
...
0.00
0.09
* Per 1,000 individuals of each sex.