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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 1898
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1898
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TABLE 23.
Sex-Age-Mortality from Diphtheria.
Age.
Paddington.
St. Mary.
St. John.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
0-1
years.
1898
2.27
1.46
2.64
1.70
—
—
Mean-rate, 1893-7
2.05
1.34
2.40
1.58
—
—
1897
0.76
2.95
0.89
3.46
—
—
1896
2.30
2.21
2.70
2.60
—
—
1895
1.57
—
1.83
—
—
—
1894
2.39
—
2.80
—
—
—
1893
3.22
1.56
3.79
184
—
—
1-5
years.
1898
6.36
2.92
6.43
3.29
—
1.23
Mean rate, 1893-7
4.66
4.21
4.70
4.78
4.43
1.49
1897
4.78
2.33
4.70
2.81
5.16
—
1896
5.64
4.44
5.75
4.86
5.09
2.43
1895
3.57
3.04
3.74
3.66
2.68
—
1894
4.97
7.05
5.72
8.26
1.32
1.27
1893
4.34
4.23
3.59
4.32
7.91
3.78
5-16
years.
1898
0.88
0.63
0.95
0.79
0.53
Mean rate, 1893-7
0.72
1.24
0.76
1.23
0.54
1.22
1897
1.18
1.l9
1.33
1.16
0.53
1.39
1896
0.29
0.64
0.24
0.57
0.52
0.91
1895
0.60
0.94
0.74
0.94
—
0.96
1894
0.72
2.30
0.63
2.30
1.10
1.90
1893
0.83
1.16
0.89
1.21
0.54
0.94
Deaths at ages over 15 years, not included in above:—
1893 6
1894 3
1895 1
1896 4
1897 2
1898 4
F 2