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Paddington 1909
Report on the vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1909
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tuberculous diseases.
TABLE 18.
| Phthisis. | Other Tuberculous Diseases. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths, 1909. | Mortality. | Deaths, 1909. | Mortality. | ||||
| 1909. | 1904-08. | 1909. | 1904-08. | ||||
| Borough | 161 | 1.06 | 43 | 0.28 | |||
| Wards. | Queen's Park | 21 | 1.29 | 5 | 0.30 | ||
| Harrow Road | 34 | 1.12 | 9 | 0.29 | |||
| Maida Vale | 24 | 1.17 | 7 | 0.34 | |||
| Westbourne | 29 | 1.11 | 6 | 0.23 | |||
| Church | 40 | 1.41 | 15 | 0.52 | |||
| Lancaster Gate, West | 3 | 0.35 | - | - | |||
| Lancaster Gate, East | 2 | 0.25 | - | - | |||
| Hyde Park | 8 | 0.57 | 1 | 0.07 | |||
TABLE 19. Fully Corrected Mortality Rates. (London experience).
| Locality. | Persons per acre (1901). | Percentage of total population (Census 1901). | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Cancer. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Overcrowded." | Living in homes of less than 5 rooms. | Standard Rate. | Fully Corrected Rate. | Standard Rate. | Fully Corrected Rate. | |||||
| 1909. | 1904-08. | 1909. | 1904-08. | |||||||
| Paddington | 106 | 13.6 | 50.9 | 1.80 | 1.02 | 0.98 | 0.91 | |||
| Wards. | Queen's Park | 152 | 9.1 | 51.7 | 1.73 | 1.29 | 0.83 | 1.09 | ||
| Harrow Road | 182 | 11.5 | 75.5 | 1.77 | 1.10 | 0.88 | 1.10 | |||
| Maida Vale | 68 | 12.6 | 43.4 | 1.82 | 1.11 | 1.01 | 1.09 | |||
| Westbourne | 104 | 13.4 | 46.3 | 1.80 | 1.06 | 1.17 | 0.71 | |||
| Church | 131 | 32.8 | 61.3 | 1.68 | 1.45 | 0.87 | 0.91 | |||
| Lancaster Gate, West | 70 | 2.6 | 15.2 | 1.84 | 0.33 | 1.02 | 1.01 | |||
| Lancaster Gate, East | 56 | 2.1 | 16.2 | 1.84 | 0.23 | 1.02 | 0.96 | |||
| Hyde Park | 108 | 5.2 | 25.3 | 1.88 | 0.52 | 1.07 | 0.52 | |||
| London | 61 | 16.0 | 54.0 | 1.74 | 1.31 | 0.87 | 1.06 | |||
| Kensington | 77 | 14.8 | 41.7 | 1.78 | 0.92 | 1.02 | 0.95 | |||
| Westminster | 73 | 13.0 | 45.7 | 1.95 | 1.18 | 0.96 | 1.03 | |||
| Marylebone | 90 | 21.1 | 55.6 | 1.85 | 1.25 | 0.99 | 1.08 | |||
| Hampstead | 36 | 6.4 | 29.6 | 1.75 | 0.59 | 0.92 | 0.85 | |||
| Willesden | 21 | 11.6 | 50.7 | 1.65 | 0.84 | 0.71 | 0.91 | |||
The corrected rates from pulmonary tuberculosis (Table 19) for the Wards ranged from
1.45 (Church) to 0.23 (Lancaster Gate, East). Rates in excess of the quinquennial means
were recorded in the four more northern Wards.
Below are given the sex-age mortalities from consumption during the past year in
comparison with the mean rates for the five years 1904-08. It will be seen that in five