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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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WHOOPING COUGH.
The mortality was 0.23 per 1,000 persons of all ages (an unsatisfactory basis of calculation
for this disease), or 0.02 less than the quinquennial mean rate, 0.25, a somewhat
remarkable fact having regard to the increased fatality. Higher (crude) rates were recorded
(Table 10) in Kensington (0.32), Marylebone and Willesden (0.26 each), while the rate for the
Metropolis was exactly double that noted in the Borough. The corrected rate for the
Borough (Table 27) was 0.29, and was exceeded by the rates in Kensington (0.38) and
Marylebone (0.35). In Paddington and the Metropolis only were last year's rates above the
means.
TABLE 27.
| Locality. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Rate. | Corrected Rate. | Standard Rate. | Corrected Rate. | |||
| 1909. | 1904-08. | 1909. | 1904-08. | |||
| Paddington | 0.43 | 0.29 | 0.39 | 0.29 | ||
| London | 0.58 | 0.48 | 0.50 | 0.25 | ||
| Kensington | 0.47 | 0.38 | 0.35 | 0.30 | ||
| Westminster | 0.36 | 0.22 | 0.31 | 0.17 | ||
| Marylebone | 0.42 | 0.35 | 0.36 | 0.26 | ||
| Hampstead | 0.40 | 0.20 | 0.34 | 0.27 | ||
| Willesden | 0.66 | 0.22 | 0.57 | 0.22 | ||
The nett mortality rates in Maida Vale, Westbourne and Church Wards were in excess
of their respective mean rates, the maximum rate (0.59) being recorded in Church Ward.
(Table 28.)
TABLE 28.
| Locality. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909. | 1904-8. | 1909. | 1904-08. | |
| Borough | 0.23 | 0.23 | ||
| Queen's Park | 0.12 | 0.12 | ||
| Harrow Road | 0.23 | 0.23 | ||
| Maida Vale | 0.24 | 0.24 | ||
| Westbourne | 0.19 | 0.23 | ||
| Church | 0.59 | 0.56 | ||
| Lancaster Gate, West | — | — | ||
| Lancaster Gate, East | — | — | ||
| Hyde Park | - | — | ||
WHOOPING COUGH.
In 1906, 589 cases of this disease were reported, the highest total since any records were
kept, in 1908, 170 and last year, 561, the second largest total. The attacks in males
numbered 263 and those in females, 298. The (uncorrected) numbers of cases recorded in
each quarter of the year are given on next page.