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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 1897
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1897
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able number of the patients were scholars at St.
Matthew's Schools. The chief streets affected were
Moscow Road (3 cases in 3 houses), Salem Gardens
(10 cases in 6 houses), and York Mews (4 cases in 3
houses).
In North Paddington there were some excess of the disease in the following streets :—
| Bravington Rd. 21 cases in 13 houses | Kilburn Pk. Rd. 8 cases in 3 houses | |||
| Harrow Road 15 „ 10 „ | Barnsdale Road 7 „ 4 „ | |||
| Ashmore Road 13 „ 8 „ | Waverley Road 7 ,, 5 „ | |||
| Shirland Road 9 „ 5 „ | Kensal Road 7 „ 6 „ | |||
| Clarendon Street 9 „ 6 „ | Cirencester Street 7 „ 7 „ | |||
In 54 houses in various parts of the Parish, 127
cases were recorded, the number of cases in any house
varying from 2 to 6. These secondary cases were
increased in frequency through failure to recognise the
primary, and occasionally, it is feared, through
neglect to secure medical advice for the patients.
In 18 instances (40 attacks) two or more cases
were reported simultaneously, the recorded dates of
attack not being identical. In each of 14 of the 18
instances, two cases were so reported, and in each of
the remaining four, three. Particulars of the 54
groups here dealt with will be found in Appendix B
(see page 114).
In at least five instances, the notification was
received on the day on which the patient died, and in
one other case the notification was not received until
the day after the death of the patient.
In one group of four cases reported from one