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Paddington 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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phthisis.
TABLE 23. Phthisis. Mortality Rates.
| Standard Rate. | 1901. Recorded. Corrected. | 1902. Recorded. Corrected. | 1903. Recorded. Corrected. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 1-74 | 1-06 | 1-66 | 1-00 | 1-60 | 1-54 | 1-54 |
| Paddington | 1-80 | ' 1-09 | 1-00 | 1-05 | 1-01 | 1-06 | 1-02 |
| Kensington. | 1-78 | 1-36 | 1-33 | 1-29 | 1-26 | 1-24 | 1-20 |
| Westminster | 1-95 | 1-89 | 1-68 | 1-78 | 1-59 | 1-68 | 1-49 |
| Marylebone. | 1-85 | 1-12 | 1-05 | 1-92 | 1-80 | 1-82 | 1-70 |
| Hampstead | 1*75 | 0-92 | 0-90 | 0-85 | 0-84 | 0-73 | 0-7 2 |
| Willesden | 1-65 | 0-82 | 0-85 | 0-89 | 0-93 | 0-88 | 0-92 |
In the Report for 1902, an attempt was made to show the connection between the
"housing" conditions of the people and the phthisis mortality. The Tables then given are
here reproduced in a somewhat modified form. (Sec Tables 21 and 25.)
TABLE 24. Phthisis and Housing. Adjacent Districts.
| Percentage of total population "Overcrowded." Living in homes of less than 5 rooms. | Mean mortality (all ages.) 1901-3. " c." " r." | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampstead | 6-4 | Hampstead | 29-6 | Hampstead ... | 0*82 | 0-83 |
| Willesden | 11-6 | Kensington | 41-7 | Willesden ... | 0-90 | 0-86 |
| Westminster | 13-0 | Westminster | 45-7 | Paddington | 1-03 | 1-07 |
| Paddington | 13-6 | Willesden | 50-7 | Kensington ... | 1-26 | 1-30 |
| Kensington | 14-8 | Paddington | 50-9 | Marylebone... | 1-52 | 1-62 |
| Marylebone | 21-1 | Marylebone | 55-6 | Westminster | 1-59 | 1-78 |
C.—Mean of corrected rates.
R.— „ recorded „
Considering whole districts first (Table 24), it is seen that in Hampstead, where there
was least " overcrowding" at the Census, and where the smallest proportion of the
inhabitants resided in homes of less than 5 rooms, the mean mortality rates (both recorded
and corrected) were the lowest. On the other hand, Marylebone, where the proportions
were highest in both cases, had a somewhat smaller mortality than Westminster, which
stands about midway in the scale of overcrowding, etc.
As regards the Wards (Table 25), in Lancaster Gate East and West Wards, where the
housing conditions mav be taken as practically identical, and where the proportions of
"overcrowding" of residents in the smaller houses are the lowest in the Borough, the