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Paddington 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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fever.
The cases removed to hospital numbered 29(5 and were equal to 82.4 per cent. of the
notifications. The highest proportion of cases removed from any Ward was 88 per cent.
(Queen's Park and Harrow Road Wards), and the lowest 55 (Lancaster Gate, East, Ward).
Among the 296 patients removed there were 7 deaths, equal to a fatality of 2.3 per cent., as
compared with 2T in 1901. The cases kept at home numbered 63, including 4 which were
subsequently found to have been erroneously diagnosed. There was only one death among
the patients remaining at home, an infant some three weeks old. The percentage mortality
among home-treated cases was 1.7, as compared with 2.7 in 1901.
Scarlet Fever.
| Cases* Notified. | Removed to Hospital. | Per cent. of Cases. | Deaths. | Fatality per 100 cases. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At home. | In hospital. | At home. | In hospital. | ||||
| Queen's Park | 51 | 45 | 88 | - | — | 4.4 | |
| Harrow Road | 99 | 88 | - | — | 2.2 | ||
| Maida Vale | 31 (2) | 27 | 87 | - | 2 | — | 7.4 |
| Westbourne | 73 | 63 | 1 | 1 | 10.0 | 1.6 | |
| Church | 65 | 50 | 76 | — | — | — | |
| Lancaster Gate (West) | 14(2) | 57 | — | — | — | ||
| „ (East) | 9 | 5 | 55 | — | — | — | |
| Hyde Park | 17 | 10 | 59 | — | — | — | |
| Borough | |||||||
| 1902 | 359 (4) | 290 | 82.4 | 1 | 7 | 1.7 | 2.3 |
| 1901 | 503 | 439 | 87.2 | 9 | 9 | 2.7 | |
| * The figures in parentheses indicate number of cases erroneously diagnosed. | |||||||
The mortality was last year was equal to 0.04 per 1,000 persons of all ages, or a little
more than half what it was in 1901 (0.07), and one-third the rate for the Metropolis (0.12,
both years). The local rate was much lower than any of the rates mentioned in Tables 21 or
22. The Borough rate contrasts very favourably with all the rates given in the latter table.
The comparison between last year's rate and those for the preceding decennium and quinquennia
are equally satisfactory, except as regards North-West Paddington. (See appended
statement).—
Scarlet Fever.
| Mean Rates. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ten Years. | Five Years. | |||
| 1902 | 1892-1901 | 1892-1896 | 1897-1901 | |
| Borough | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.17 | 0.07 |
| St. Mary | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.18 | 0.08 |
| St. John | — | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.03 |
| North-West Paddington | 0.51 | 0.19 | 0.28 | 0.11 |
| "FEVER." | ||||
| BOROUGH. | London. | |||
| 1902 | 1901 | 1902 | 1901 | |
| Cases | 84 | 92 | 3463 | 3263 |
| Deaths | 13 | 15 | 541 | 508 |
| Morbidity | 0.56 | 0.64 | 0.74 | 0.71 |
| Fatality | 15.4 | 16.3 | 15.6 | 15.5 |
| Mortality | 0.07 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.10 |
So far as the Borough is concerned the term "fever" includes enteric (typhoid) and
simple continued fevers, while in the Metropolis typhus fever (4 cases) has to be added.