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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 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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notifications. TABLE 17. Notifications distributed according to Wards, 1902. Figures for 1901 in ( ).
| Queen's Park. | Harrow Road. | Maida Vale. | West-bourne. | Church. | Lancaster West. | Gate. East. | Hyde. Park. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | 17 (0) | 11 (3) | 12 (5) | 14 (3) | 50 (7) | 1 (3) | 1 (0) | 4 (1) | |
| Diphtheria | 52 (106) | 61 (96) | 23 (26) | 24 (34) | 24 (38) | 7 (5) | 6 (21) | 8 (12) | |
| MembranousCroup | 3 (1) | 1 (0) | — O(1) | 1 (2) | 1 (0) | ||||
| Erysipelas | 16 (15) | 35 (31) | 10)15) | 28 (20) | 42 (48) | 3 (1) | 6 (9) | ||
| Fevers. | Scarlet Enteric Continued Puerperal | 51 (38) | 99 (116) | 31 (72) | 73 (93) | 65 (118) | 14 (15) | 9 (15) | 17 (36) |
| 10 (10) | 13 (13) | 11 (20) | 17 (13) | 20 (26) | 1 (5) | 4 (0) | |||
| 1 (0) | -(0) | ||||||||
| 4 (1) | 1 (1) | 3(6) | -(0) | ||||||
| Totals | 153 (171) | 222 (260) | 89 (140) | 159 (170) | 204 (240) | 26 (30) | 25 (37) | 43 (63) | |
| Rates,* 1902 | 8.82 | 7.77 | 4.61 | 6.57 | 7.46 | 3.01 | 3.09 | 3.03 | |
| „ 1901 | 9.36 | 9.37 | 7.46 | 7.13 | 9.11 | 3.54 | 4.65 | 4.51 | |
*Per 1,000 persons of all ages.
TABLE 18. Notifications Distributed according to sexes and ages of patients. Borough. 1902.
| Ages. | Small-pox. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Erysipelas. | Fevers. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet. | Enteric. | Continued. | Puerperal. | ||||||||||||
| m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | f. | f. | |
| 0—1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 1— | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | |||||||||
| 2- | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 3- | 1 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 17 | 3 | ||||||||
| 4— | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 24 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| 5— | 4 | 3 | 38 | 49 | 4 | 5 | 79 | 86 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| 13— | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||
| 15- | 10 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 16 | 13 | 4 | ||||
| 25— | 35 | 33 | 6 | 12 | 34 | 54 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 10 | |||
| 65 and over | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| All ages | 56 | 54 | 95 | 110 | 3 | 3 | 65 | 78 | 175 | 184 | 44 | 39 | 1 | 14 | |
| Rates— | |||||||||||||||
| 1902 | 0.88 | 0.63 | 1.49 | 1.29 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 1.02 | 0.92 | 2.76 | 2.17 | 0.68 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 0.15 | |
| 1901 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 2.52 | 2.20 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.87 | 1.05 | 3.67 | 3.34 | 0.84 | 0.12 | |||