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Paddington 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Borough of ]

Published
1897
Author
Dudfield, Reginald.
Pages
145
Tables
67

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  • Page 9
    TABLE l. Sex-Age-Constitution of Populations estimated to middle of 1896.
    Age Groups.Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.London.
  • Page 10
    TABLE 2.
    Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.
  • Page 11
    PADDINGTON.
    Density of population, acres to a person.
  • Page 12
    TABLE 3. Births registered in 1896.
    I'(aldington.St. Mitry.St. John.
    Births registered duringMales.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.Males.Ft males.Total.
  • Page 12
    TABLE 4. Births and Birth-rates, 1886-96.
    Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.Birth-rates.
    Regd.Rates.Regd.Rates.Regd.Rates.England • and Wales.London.
  • Page 15
    TABLE 5. Illegitimate Births and Birth-rates.
    Year.Estimated Population.Births Registered.Birth-rates per 1,000 of Populations.Illegitimate Births per 100 Legitimate.
    Legi-timate.Illegitimate.Total.Legitimate.Illegitimate.Total.
  • Page 16
    TABLE 6. Vaccination Returns 1881-1895.
    Year.Births.Successfully vaccinate^.Insusceptible of vaccination.Had Small-pox.Died un vaccina ted.Vaccinati-n postpontd.Remaining (n< t traced, &c., &c.)*Children not accounted for (including postponed cases) % of births.
  • Page 30
    TABLE 7. Notifications during year 1896. (Corrected for duplicates only.)
    Diseases Notified.Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.
    Quarters.Year.Quarters.Year.QuartersYear.
    123412341234
  • Page 32
    TABLE 8. Comparison of Returns for Paddington and London. (Corrected for duplicates.)
    Notifications Received.Notification Rates, † 1896.
    Paddington.London.
  • Page 35
    PUERPERAL FEVER. Based on Notifications of Puerperal Fever, and Births Registered during 1891.95.
    District.Notifications per 1,000 births.DistrictNotifications per 1,000 births.
  • Page 36
    TABLE 9.
    Age.groups.MALES.FEMALES.Both Sexes.
    Smallpox.Diphtheria.Membr. Croup.Fevers.Total.Smallpox.Diphtheria.Membr. Croup.Erysipelas.Fevers.Sickness.rales per 1,000 persons in group.
    Erysipelas.Scarlet.Enteric.Continued.| Scarlet.Enteric.Continued.Puerperal.Total.Total 1896.
    1896.1895.1894.
  • Page 37
    TABLE 10. Sickness.rates (based on notifications) calculated on estimated numbers living in each Age.Group. Corrected for duplicates only.
  • Page 39
    TABLE ll. A comparison of Sickness.rates in three Age.Groups for the years 1894.96. Corrected for duplicates only.
    MALES.FEMALES.
    Smallpox.Diphtheria & Memb. Croup.Erysipelas.Fevers.All Diseases.Smallpox.Diphtheria & Memb. Croup.Erysipelas.Fevers.All Diseases.
    ScarletEnteric & Cont'd.ScarletEnteric & Cont'd.Puerperal.
  • Page 41
    TABLE 12. School Attendance and Infectious Disease.
    PIaces Provided.Average Attendance.Cases among: Pupils.Other Children (not patients) attending.
    Scarlet Fever,Diphtheria.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.
  • Page 50
    TABLE 13. Incidence of Infectious Disease in Special Areas.
    Estimated Popula ion 1896.Notification ofRates per 1,000 of Population.
    Diphtheria.Scarlet. Fever.Diphtheria.Scarlet Fever.
  • Page 52
    TABLE 14.
    Inhabitants, Census 1891.All diseases.Dipltneria.Scarlet Fever.
    Cases.Rates.*Cases.Rates.Cases.Rates.
  • Page 56
    TABLE 15.
    All Diseases.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria (Memb. Croup).
    ABCABCABC
  • Page 60
    TABLE 16. Deaths of Parishioners in 1896. "Corrected."
    Deaths of Parishioners.Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.
    DuringMales.Females.Both Sexes.Males.Females.Both Sexee.Males.Females.Both Sexes.
  • Page 61
    TABLE 17. Deaths and Death-rates, 1886-96.
    Year.Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.Death-rates.
    Regd.Kates.Regd.Rates.Regd.Rates.England and Wales.London.*
  • Page 63
    TABLE 18. Comparison of "Corrected" Death-rates. 1896.
    Standard Death. rate.sex-age Factor.Rates for 1896.Middle of 1896.
    Record.Corrected.Population.Acres per Person
  • Page 66
    TABLE 19. Males.
    Age Groups.1896.Death-rates per 1,000 in each group.
    Estimated living.Quarters.Year.
    12341896.1895.1894.1893.
  • Page 67
    TABLE 19A. Females.
    Age Groups.1896.Death.rates per 1,000 in each group.
    Estimated living.Quarter.Year.
    12341896.1895.1894.1893.
  • Page 70
    TABLE 20a. Deaths at ages under 5 years. Females.
    St. Mary.St. John.Paddinoton.Paddinoton.
    Quarters.Year.Quarters.Year.Quarters.Year.
    189518941893
    123412341234
  • Page 71
    TABLE 20a. Deaths at ages under 5 years. Females.
    St. Mary.St. John.Paddinoton.Paddinoton.
    Quarters.Year.Quarters.Year.Quarters.Year.
    189518941893
    123412341234
  • Page 72
    TABLE 21. Death-rates, at all ages, from groups of diseases.
    1896.Paddington.
    St. Mary.St. John.1896.Persons.
    M.F.p.M.F.P.M.F.1896.;1895.1894.1893.
  • Page 74
    TABLE 22.
    ST. MARY'S.ST. JOHN'S.
    Quarters.The Year.Quarters.The Year.
    12341234
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
  • Page 75
    TABLE 23.
    Birth-rate 1Death-rates* fromInfantile Mortality (0-1 year) per 1,000 births registered.
    All Causes.Principal Zymotic Diseases.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Fever. +Diarrhoea.Phthisis.
  • Page 80
    TABLE 24. Death-rates from Diphtheria, 1893-1896, at ages under 15 years.
    Age-Group.Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.
  • Page 84
    TABLE 25. Deaths in the Two Divisions of the Parish. Hospital Cases distributed.
    Diseases.St. Maey.St. John.
    Recorded in 1896.Corrected Averages.Recorded I in 1896.Corrected Averages.
    1886-901891-951886-951888-901891-951886-95
  • Page 85
    TABLE 26. Inquests on Parishioners, 1896.
    Finding of Jury.Paddingtou.St. Mary.St. Joha.
  • Page 85
    The accidental deaths were attributed to the following causes:—
  • Page 88
    TABLE 27.—Deaths of Illegitimate Children.
    Paddington.
    0-11-55 & over
  • Page 88
    Causes of Death.
    0—1.1—6.5 & o'er
    M.FM.F.M.F.
  • Page 90
    TABLE 28. From observations taken at Greenwich.
    1896.Barometer.Temperature, Degrees Fahrenheit.Humidity of Air.Rainfull.Sunshine.Relative proportionHourly Velocity.
    Of Air.Daily Range.On Grass, No. of nights record at
  • Page 91
    TABLE 29. Observations taken at Camden Square.
    1896.Barometer.Temperature.Mean degree of Humidity, Saturation =100.Wind.Rainfall.
    Mean of Readings (inches)Range.Mean of Air.Mean Daily RangeHighest Reading.Lowest Reading.Relative proportion ofNo. of days it fell.Amount collected (inches).
    N.E.S.W.
  • Page 92
    The sum of the observations for the year are as follow:
  • Page 95
    TABLE 30. Meteorology and Vital Statistics in 1896.
    Quarters.Years.
    First.Second.ThirdFourth.
  • Page 96
    TABLE 31. Comparison of Analyses of Water Supplied to Paddington. (Compiled from Registrar-General's Annual Summary.)
  • Page 97
    TABLE 32. Comparison of mean results, 1894-96.
    Mean Temperature C*.Parts per 100,000 pts. of Water. (Means of all Analyst*, )
    Total Solids.Organic.Ammonia.N itrogen as Nitrites and Nitrates.Chlorine.Hardness 1 degree= 1 pt. Oft CO3.
    Carbon.Nit'g'n.
  • Page 98 99
    TABLE • 33.
    1896JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
    Volume of Thames mea- sured at Teddington Weir, in Millions of gallons per day )1,152.5948. 41,672.6741.9374.6421261.8216.4430.82,624. 5929.73,839.9Year. Mean Microbes per CC.
    T°BT°BT°BT°BT°BT°BT°BT°BT°BT°BT°BT°B
  • Page 101
    TABLE 34. Efficiency of Alteration, and fineness of sand.
    Amount of Storage (days' supply).Average Rate of Filtration gal. per hour per sq. It.Average Thickness of Sand on Filters.Percentage of Sand, " fine.*'Percentage of Organisms not removed.*
  • Page 115
    Under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 23 summonses were taken out, the results of the same, with the legal expenses incurred, being set out below :—
    Sample Adulterated.Extent of Adulteration.Fine Imposed.Costs Imposed.Solicitor's Oosts.Inspector's Expend, etc.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 116
    Continued from previous page...
    Sample Adulterated.Extent of Adulteration.Fine Imposed,Costs Imposed.Solicitor's Costs.Inspector's Expend, etc.
    £.s.d£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 117
    TABLE I.
    Year.Estimated Populations at Middle of each Year.Births Registered.Deaths of Parishioners.
    St. Mary.St. John.St. Mary.St. John.St. Mary.St. John.
  • Page 118
    TABLE II.
    Year.Per 1,000 of Estimated Population.Deaths of Infants under 1 year.Deaths of Children aged under 5 years per 1,000 Deaths at all ages.Deaths in Public Institutions.
    Paddington Workhouse and Infirmary.St. Mary's Hospital.Lock Hospital.Children's Hospital, Paddington Green.Outlying Institutions.
    Birth-rates.Corrected Death-rates.Per 1,000 Births Registt red.Per 1,000 Deaths at all ages.
  • Page 119
    TABLE IV. Showing the Number of Deaths at all ages in 1896, from certain groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1,000 of Population, and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes; also the Number of Deaths of Infants under one year of age from other groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1,000 Births and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes under one year.
    Division I. (all ages).Total Deaths registered in 371 days.Deaths per 1,000 of Population, at all ages.*Deaths per 1,000 of Total Deaths, at all ages.
  • Page 120
    TABLE III. MALES. WHOLE PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1896. (53 weeks ended January 2nd, 1897.) Not it.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.
    Cause of Death.AGES.All Ages.
    0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
  • Page 121
    TABLE III. WHOLE PARISH. FEMALES. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1896, (53 weeks ended January 2nd, 1897.) Note—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.
    AGES.All Ages.
    0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
  • Page 122
    Males. Table III. (continued).
    Cause of Death.AGES.All Ages.
    0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
  • Page 123
    Table III. (continued). Females.
    Cause of Death.AGES.All Ages.
    0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-35-75-85-
  • Page 124
    Males. Table III. (continued).
    Cause of Death.AGES.All Ages.
    0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
  • Page 125
    Table III. (continued). Females.
    Cause oe Deathages.All Ages.
    0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
  • Page 126
    Males. Table III. (continued).
    Cause of Death.AGES.All Ages.
    0-1-5-16-25-35-45-55-65-76-85-
  • Page 127
    Table III. (continued). Females.
    Cause or Death.ages.All Ages.
    0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
  • Page 128
    Males. Table III. (continued).
    Cause op Death.AGES.All Ages.
    0-1-6-15-26-35-45-55-65-75-85-
  • Page 129
    Table III. (continued). Females.
    Cause of Death.AGES.All Ages.
    0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
  • Page 130
    TABLE V. Table showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years 1886 to 1895, and in the Year 1896.
    DISEASE.1886.1887.1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.Annual Averages 1886—96.Total Deaths in 1896. (53wks.)Death-rates, 1896.
    Uncorrected.Corrected.
  • Page 131
    TABLE ^1. Report of the Works of the Sanitary Department completed during the Year 1896.
    No of Complaints received.*Inspections of Dwelling Houses.Houses Let in Lodgings.Sanitary Works completed in Dwelling Houses.To Regulate Keeping of Animals.Trade Supervision.Foods.Canal Boats.
    Drainage, See.Water Supply.Dust Receptacles.Miscellaneous.
    " House-to-House."On Complaint or after illness.Cellar Dwellings.Re-Inspections of all kinds.Houses placed on RegisterRegistered Houses Inspected.Entire Reconstruction.Drains trapped and (or) ventilated.Waste-pipes disconnected.Rain-water-pipes disconnected.W.C. New provided, repaired, &c.Soil-pipes ventilated.Services Separated.Supplies Reinstated.Cisterns New provided.Cisterns cleansed, repaired, &c.Cisterns overflow disconnected.New provided.Repaired, &c.Houses cleansed.Cases of overcrowding abated.Cellar-dwellings closed.Yards and Areas Paved and Drained..Manure Receptacles Reconstructed, See.Accumulations Removed.Improperly kept Removed.Slaughterhouses.Cowhouses.Bakehouses.Offensive Trades.Seizure of Unsound Food.Samples taken for Analysis.Registered.Inspected.
  • Page 132
    TABLE VII. Meteorological Observations at Greenwich. From the Weekly Returns of the Registrar-General.
    Quarters.Years.
    12341896.1895.1894.
  • Page 133
    Extract from Return of Registered Common Lodging Houses within the Jurisdiction of the London County Council.
    Registered No.Name and Residence of Keeper.Situation of Common Lodging House.Authorized No. of Lodgers.% Particulars of Inspection as to Fitness.
    Date when Registered.Name.No. of House.Street or Place.Parish.No. of House.Street or Place.Sanitary District.Approved or not.Date of Approval.
  • Page 141
    WEEKLY NUMBERS OF CASES OF SCARLET FEVER IN SELECTED AREA. The "Selected Area" embraces—
    Week ending.No. of Cases Reported.Week ending.No. of Coses Reported.
  • Page 142
    ST. PETER'S PARK.
    Houses.Diphtheria.Scarlet Fever.Houses.Diphtheria.Scarlet Fever.
  • Page 142
    HALL PARK.
  • Page 143
    CIRENCESTER AREA.
  • Page 143
    NORTH WHARF AREA.
  • Page 144
    "RETURN CASES," 1896. Appendix D.
    Initials.Sex & Age.Disease.Removed to Hospital.Returned Home.Notes, &c.
  • Page 145
    TABULATED LIST OF ARTICLES ANALYSED During the Year ended March 31st, 1897.
    Article analysed.Total number.Number adulterated.Percentage adulterated.