Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE III. Deaths in Local Institutions. 1902.
Year. | Paddington Workhouse and Infirmary. | St. Mary's Hospital. | Children's Hospital. | Lock Hospital. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1892 | 236 | 355 | 12 | 7 |
1893 | 204 | 399 | - | 3 |
1894 | 165 | 347 | - | 3 |
1895 | 204 | 332 | 17** | 1 |
1896 | 188 | 334 | 48 | 2 |
1897 | 192 | 262* | 63 | 2 |
1898 | 194 | 324 | 80 | 2 |
1899 | 255 | 280* | 69 | 2 |
1900 | 255 | 386 | 63 | 4 |
1901 | 238 | 317 | 92 | 5 |
Averages 1892-1901 | 213 | 334 | 69 | 3 |
1902 | 298 | 359 | (Eight years.) 76 |
deaths in local institutions. 71
TABLE IIIa. Causes of Deaths in Institutions. 1902.
Local Institutions. | Deaths of Residents recorded beyond the Borough. | ||||||||
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Workhouse and Infirmary. | St. Mary's Hospital. | Children's Hospital. | Other Institutions, Homes, &c. | Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board. | Special and General Hospitals. | Lunatic Asylums. | Poor Law Institutions. | Elsewhere. | |
Small-pox | ... | 20 | |||||||
Measles | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Scarlet Fever | ... | ... | 7 | ||||||
Influenza | 2 | 1 | |||||||
Whooping Cough | 1 | ||||||||
Diphtheria | 1 | 8 | 16 | ||||||
Enteric Fever | 11 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
Diarrhœa | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 | |||||
Epidemic Enteritis | 5 | 4 | ... | ||||||
Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | •• | ||||||
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 1 | |||||||
Other Septic Diseases | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Tuberculosis of Lungs | 33 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 13 | |||
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 5 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
Cancer | 20 | 30 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 2 | |||
Premature Birth | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Developmental Diseases | 5 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
Old Age | 17 | 5 | |||||||
Bronchitis | 43 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
Pneumonia | 19 | 32 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||
Cirrhosis of Liver | 4 | 10 | |||||||
Accidents of Childbirth | 2 | 1 | |||||||
Accidents and Violence | 4 | 57 | 2 | 8 | 2 | ||||
Suicides | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | ||||
All other Causes | 128 | 162 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 32 | 29 | 3 | 7 |
All Causes | 298 | 359 | 70 | 32 | 52 | 79 | 55 | 7 | 14 |
Non-Residents | 13 | 268 | 52 | 29 |