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Paddington 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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scarlf.t fever.
Diphtheria. Death-rates all ages.
| 1903. | Mean Rates. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five years. 1893-1897. | Five years. 1895-1902. | Ten years. 1893-1902. | ||
| Borough | 0.10 | 0.58 | 0.31 | 0.44 |
| St. Mary | 0.09 | 0.69 | 0.34 | 0.51 |
| St. John | 0.11 | 0.28 | 0.07 | 0.17 |
| North-West Paddington | 0.11 | 0.59 | 0.64 | 0.61 |
Of the adjacent districts Westminster (0.08) and Willesden (0.07) had lower rates than
that of the Borough (Table 15) while in comparison with the whole country and its main
divisions (Table 16) the local rate is the lowest of all.
TABLE 17. Diphtheria 1903.
| District. | Cases Notified.* | To Hospital. | Per cent. Cases Notified to Hospital | Deaths. | Fatalities. per cent, cases treated | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Home. | In Hospital | At Home. | In Hospital | |||||
| Wards— | ||||||||
| Queen's Park | 19 (4) | 16 (3) | 84 | — | 3 (1) | — | 15.4 | |
| Harrow Road | 43 (4) | 39 (4) | 90 | 1 | 5 (1) | 25.0 | 11.4 | |
| Maida Vale | 14 (4) | 8(2) | 57 | — | 1 | - | 16.6 | |
| YVestbourne | 21 (1) | 18 (0) | 86 | 1 | 0 | 50.0 | 11.1 | |
| Church | 25 (7) | 24 (6) | 96 | — | — | — | — | |
| Lancaster Gate, West | 3 (0) | 2 (0) | 67 | — | — | — | — | |
| „ East | 4(2) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Hyde Park | 16 (0) | 16 (0) | 100 | — | 4(0) | — | 25.0 | |
| Borough | 1903 | 145 (22) | 123 (15) | 84.8 | 9 | 15 (2) | 12.1 | |
| 1902† | 211 (18) | 160 (12) | 75.8 | 13 | 18 | 28.8 | 12.1 | |
| 1901 | 343 (?) | 270 (?) | 78.7 | 18 | 28 | 24.6 | 10.3 | |
* The figures in parentheses indicate the numbers of cases erroneously diagnosed as Diphtheria. These cases
(deaths) have been allowed for in calculating the fatalities.
| One other death from diphtheria was registered during the year (in Maida Vale Ward) but the case not
having been notified the death has been excluded from this table.
SCARLET FEVER.
| Borough. | London. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903. | 1902. | 1903. | 1902. | |
| Cases | 414 | 359 | 12,545 | 18,269 |
| Deaths | 9 | 8 | 361 | 560 |
| Morbidity | 2.83 | 2.42 | 2.71 | 3.91 |
| Fatality | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.0 | |
| Mortality | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.12 |
Although the cases of this disease increased from 359 in 1902 to 414 last year, yet the
latter total was well below the corrected decennial average (550). The morbidity rate last
vear (2*83) was a little higher than the Metropolitan rate (2.71).