Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1898 page 56

Paddington 1898

Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1898

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Table: TABLE 19. Average annual number of Deaths compared with record for 1898.

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TABLE 19. Average annual number of Deaths compared with record for 1898.

		PADDINGTON.				ST. MARY'S.				ST. JOHN'S.
		1898.	Averages. *			1898.	Averages.*			1898.	Averages.*
			1888 to 1892.	1893 to 1897.	1888 to 1897		1888 to 1892.	1893 to 1897.	1888 to 1897.		1888 to 1892.	1893 to 1897.	1888 to 1897
														Principal Zymotic Diseases.	Smallpox	-	0	2	1	-	0	2	1	-	-	0	0
															Measles	89	54	46	50	84	49	42	46	5	5	4	4
Scarlet Fever	8	13	20	16	7	11	17	14	1	2	3	2
Whooping Cough	45	62	43	53	41	53	40	47	4	9	3	6
Diphtneria†	64	59	84	72	til	48	73	61	3	11	11	11
" Fever "‡	17	15	16	15	12	9	12	10	5	6	4	5
Diarrhoea§	92	70	78	75	78	63	69	67	14	7	9	8
Totals	315	273	289	282	283	233	255	246	32	40	34	36
Puerperal Fever		4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	-	1	1	1
Diseases of Parturition		6	8	8	7	5	7	6	6	1	1	2	1
Other Septic Diseases		14	16	14	15	10	12	11	12	4	4	3	3
Epidemic Influenza		67	74	57	63	48	55	42	47	19	19	15	16
Alcoholism		15	7	11	9	10	6	8	7	5	1	3	2
Cirrhosis of Liver		16	21	19	19	15	13	13	13	1	8	6	6
Malignant Dis. (Cancer)		115	106	118	112	82	75	87	82	33	31	31	30
Phthisis		173	185	165	169	148	159	126	143	25	26	29	26
Other Tubercular Dis eases		75	77	74	76	64	63	64	64	11	14	10	12
Apoplexy		77	105	92	98	58	80	70	75	19	25	22	23
Bronchitis		213	271	232	250	181	213	190	202	32	58	42	48
Pneumonia		120	190	132	159	100	149	105	126	20	41	27	33
Suicides		10	14	12	13	7	10	9	10	3	4	3	3

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* Averages corrected for changes in population, and adjusted to nearest whole number in each case.
0 signifies average less than unity. — no death recorded.
See Footnotes to Table 19a.

Table: Measles.

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Measles.

Cases Reported	1,196
Deaths	89
Fatality*	7.4
Mortality†	0.69

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In 1897 only 2 deaths were due to this disease,
the smallest number on record since 1867, while the
total for last year (89) has been exceeded only by that
* " Fatality "—number of deaths per 100 oases reported,
† " Mortality"—rate per 1,000 inhabitants of all ages, except where
otherwise specified.

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Paddington 1898

Table: TABLE 19. Average annual number of Deaths compared with record for 1898.

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Table: Measles.

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