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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 1909
Report on the vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1909
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MEASLES.
The sex-age-group fatalities are given in Table 25, the most notable fatality (32.8 per
cent.) being that recorded among males under one year. In the three southern Wards (Table
26) no death was recorded, while the fatality of the disease in the remaining five (central
and northern Wards) ranged from 9.1 per cent. in Church to 3.2 in Westbourne Ward.*
TABLE 25. Measles.
| 0— | 1— | 2— | 3— | 4— | 5— | 13— | 15— | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | f. | m. | F. | M. | f. | |
| Cases | 22 | 18 | 42 | 53 | 41 | 55 | 46 | 39 | 40 | 62 | 139 | 138 | 2 | - | 4 | 8 |
| 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Fatality- | ||||||||||||||||
| 1909 | 31.8 | 16.6 | 21.4 | 18.8 | 2.4 | 7.2 | 2.1 | - | - | 1.6 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1908 | 15.3 | 16.6 | 26.1 | 19.0 | 2.3 | - | 2.0 | 5.4 | 3.2 | - | - | 0.5 | - | - | - | 8.0 |
| 1907 | 17.3 | 15.1 | 8.7 | 4.7 | 6.5 | 5.7 | 1.1 | - | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.1 | - | - | - | - |
| 1906 | 17.6 | 7.1 | 19.4 | 10.2 | - | 2.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1905 | 13.5 | 16.9 | 9.3 | 15.1 | 5.8 | 2.6 | - | 4.1 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | - | - | - | - |
| 1904 | 26.9 | 20.9 | 13.6 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.7 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 1.2 | - | - | - | 5.5 |
| 1903 | 7.1 | 12.9 | 19.1 | 7.6 | 14.7 | 9.6 | - | - | - | 1.2 | — | - | - | - | - | - |
TABLE 26. Measles.
| Locality. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906. | 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | Mean 1904-08. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen's Park | C. | 288 | 244 | 134 | 184 | 148 | 50 | |
| D. | 15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | ||
| F. | 5.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 5.4 | 4.0 | ||
| Harrow Road | C. | 231 | 461 | 127 | 332 | 152 | 160 | |
| D. | 10 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | ||
| F. | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 4.3 | ||
| Maida Vale | C. | 69 | 185 | 40 | 203 | 63 | 97 | |
| D. | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | ||
| F. | 8.7 | 2.7 | 7.5 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 5.1 | ||
| Westbourne | C. | 79 | 187 | 136 | 133 | 73 | 155 | |
| D. | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 5 | ||
| F. | 1.2 | 3.7 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 12.3 | 3.2 | ||
| Church | C. | 129 | 434 | 72 | 374 | 160 | 186 | |
| D. | 5 | 25 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 17 | ||
| F. | 3.8 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 5.6 | 9.1 | ||
| Lancaster Gate,West | C. | 54 | 27 | 41 | 16 | 29 | 38 | |
| D. | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | ||
| F. | 1.8 | — | — | — | 3.4 | — | ||
| Lancaster Gate, East | C. | 27 | 65 | 14 | 9 | 48 | 11 | |
| D. | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | ||
| E. | 3.7 | 1.5 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Hyde Park | C. | 19 | 111 | 28 | 33 | 106 | 12 | |
| D. | — | 2 | — | 3 | 2 | — | ||
| F. | — | 1.8 | — | 9.0 | 1.8 | — | ||
| Borough | C. | 896 | 1714 | 592 | 1284 | 779 | 709 | |
| D. | 39 | 63 | 16 | 40 | 36 | 36 | ||
| F. | 4.3 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 5.0 | ||
C.—Cases. D.—Deaths. F.— Fatality per cent.
* The fatality in the former Ward (91) was nearly double the mean (4.9) for the five years 1904-08.