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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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numbers given under these last headings are not
corrected for non-parishioners. The table shows that
the mortality follows the rise and fall of the temperatures,
but that temperature alone is not the efficient
cause of the mortality is shown by Table 22, which
compares the chief meteorological elements for the
last four years (third quarters), and the deaths from
diarrhoea only at four age-groups under one year
of life.
TABLE22.
| Third Quarters of | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | ||
| Greenwich Observations. | Mean Temperature (F°) | 55.5 | 62.3 | 63.0 | 59.5 |
| „ Daily Range „ | 16.5 | 20.5 | 17.9 | 18.7 | |
| „ Humidity of Air(Saturation=100) | 81 | 73 | 74 | 73 | |
| Total Rainfall, inches | 7.56 | 6.50 | 8.60 | 6.34 | |
| Bright Sunshine, percentage of "possible" recorded | 23.5 | 30.6 | 25.4 | 43.9 | |
| Mean Velocity of Wind in miles per hour | 10.3 | 11.0 | 10.6 | 11.0 | |
| Deaths of Parishioners. | Deaths from Diarrhoea, 0—3 months | 7 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
| ,, 3—6 „ | 9 | 19 | 20 | 31 | |
| ,, 6—9 „ | 12 | 14 | 10 | 18 | |
| ,, 9— „ | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | |
| Total under 1 year | 34 | 51 | 45 | 78 | |
* A new globe fixed to recorder in January. Results in former years
found to be too low.
Of the infants dying of diarrhæal affections,
77 were males and 78 females; whilst, of the