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Paddington 1909
Report on the vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1909
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8 deaths.
The Ward distribution (Table 7) shows that there were last year fewer cases of all
diseases in Queen's Park, Harrow Road, Maida Yale and Lancaster Gate, West, Wards,
more in the remaining four. Diphtheria was more prevalent last year than in 1908 in
Queen's Park and Church Wards; scarlet fever in Westbourne, Church and Hyde Park, and
enteric fever in Church Ward. The morbidity rates were lower last year in Queen's Park,
Maida Vale and Lancaster Gate, West, Wards, while of the increases recorded in the others
the greatest were those in Westbourne and Church Wards.
TABLE 7. Notifications : Ward Distribution.
| Disease. | Queen's Park. | Harrow Road. | Maida Vale. | West-bourne. | Church. | Lancaster Gate, | Hyde Park. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | East. | ||||||||
| Smallpox | —(-) | -(-) | -(-) | —(-) | —(—) | -(-) | —(-) | —(-) | |
| Diphtheria | 21(9) | 41(43) | 22(21) | 27(26) | 45(24) | 6(6) | 9(5) | ||
| MembranousCroup | —(-) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | ||||
| Erysipelas | 9(9) | 23(14) | 16(11) | 29(43) | 1(-) | 1(3) | 5(2) | ||
| F evers | Scarlet | 61(86) | 166(251) | 45(74) | 107(104) | 171(152) | 19(16) | 12(9) | 48(25) |
| Enteric | 3(5) | 5(4) | 10(6) | —(4) | 2(1) | 5(5) | |||
| Continued | -(-) | -(1) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | ||
| Puerperal | -(1) | -(1) | 1(1) | -(-) | -(-) | ||||
| Totals | 94(113) | 234(280) | 88(111) | 159(756) | 257(226) | 22(28) | 21(19) | 67(37) | |
| Rates*, 1909 | 5.78 | 7.73 | 4.30 | 6.12 | 9.06 | 2.61 | 2.65 | 4.83 | |
| „ 1904-08 | |||||||||
* Per 1,000 persons all ages.
DEATHS.
During the past year 2,154 deaths from all causes were registered in the Borough, 75
more than in 1908 (53 weeks), but 71 fewer than the annual average (2,225) for the ten years
1899-1908. The gross mortality was at the rate of 14.22 per 1,000 persons of all ages last
year, as compared with 13.58 in the preceding year and a mean rate of 15.16 for the
decennium. The gross rates for three of the four quarters of the year exceeded the mean
rates for the five years 1904-8, as may be seen from the figures given below.
Gross Mortality Rates. (All Causes).
| Quarters. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909. | 18.96 | 14.05 | 10.64 | 13.40 |
| Mean 1904-8 |
The mean annual rate for the quinquennium was 14*36, and there is little doubt that but
for the exceptionally low rate which prevailed in the third quarter of the year, a most unusual
time for the rate to be low, last year's rate (14.22) would have exceeded the mean. In Table
I, Appendix, will be found the figures for each year since 1899.
Included in the total of 2,154, were 409 deaths of non-residents, while in out-lying
public institutions in the Metropolis and other parts of the country 219 deaths of residents of