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Paddington 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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NOTIFICATIONS.
TABLE 9. Notification Rates. (Based or) figures given in preceding Table.)
| Paddington. | London. | Kensington. | Westminster. | Marylebone. | Hampstead. | Willesden. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | * Mean | 1904 | Mean | 1904 | Mean | 1904 | Mean | 1904 | Mean | 1904 | Mean | 1904 | Mean | ||
| Smallpox | 0.02 | 0.31 | 0.10 | 0.71 | 0.01 | 0.21 | 0.03 | 0.68 | 0.06 | 1.92 | 0.01 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.27 | |
| Diphtheria | 0.97 | 1.62 | 1.55 | 2.21 | 1.01 | 1.14 | 0.83 | 1.32 | 0.90 | 1.81 | 0.66 | 1.33 | 2.64 | 2.91 | |
| Erysipelas | 0.79 | 0.92 | 1.06 | 1.04 | 0.78 | 0.99 | 0.72 | 0.67 | 1.43 | 1.44 | 0.64 | 0.59 | 0.55 | 0.70 | |
| Fevers. | Scarlet ... | 2.46 | 2.93 | 2.89 | 3.55 | 1.48 | 2.21 | 1.80 | 2.38 | 2.26 | 3.07 | 1.94 | 2.56 | 2.46 | 4.15 |
| Enteric ... | 0.32 | 0.49 | 0.40 | 0.64 | 0.26 | 0.45 | 0.23 | 0.56 | 0.38 | 0.61 | 0.31 | 0.49 | 0.27 | 0.47 | |
| Continued | — | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | — | — | |
| Puerperal | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.04 | |
* Mean rates for the three years 1901-03.
In the County as a whole the total number of cases certified last year (28,337) exceeds
the total for 1903 bv 605—an increase equal to 2 per cent, of the total for the latter year,
The decrease in the total number of cases in the Borough was equal to 7 per cent. The
greatest increase in prevalence in the County was that of scarlet fes'er (900 cases) (see
Table 7), equal to 7 per cent, of the total for 1903. Other increases were erysipelas (572
cases in excess), smallpox (78), and puerperal fever (43). The numbers of cases of the principal
diseases reported in the Adjacent Districts are given in Table 8, and the corresponding rates
in Table 9. The local figures and rates compare not unfavourably with those for the other
districts mentioned in the tables.
TABLE 10. Notifications, 1904. Distributed according to Wards. Numbers for 1903 shown {italics).
| 1. Queen's Park. | II. Harrow Road. | III. Maida Vale. | IV. West-bourne. | V. Church. | VI. Lancaster Gate West. | VII. Lancaster Gate. East. | VIII. Hyde. Park. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | 1 (1) | 2 (/) | 1 (-) | -(?) | - (-) | -(-) | — (1) | ||
| Diphtheria | 17 (19) | 32 (43) | 28 (14) | 16 (20) | 28 (24) | 4 (3) | 11 (16) | ||
| Membranous Croup | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | - (1) | -(-) | -(-) | - (-) | ||
| Erysipelas | 11 (10) | 27 (25) | 20 (19) | 13 (12) | 35 (37) | 4 (2) | 4 (11) | ||
| Fevers. | Scarlet | 76 (63) | 95 (97) | 29 (57) | 46 (73) | 73 (92) | 15 (14) | 4 (6) | 27 (12) |
| Enteric | 1 (8) | 3 (5) | 8 (6) | 14 (6) | 11 (15) | 3(5) | 5 (1) | ||
| Continued | -(-) | -(-) | -(1) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | — (1) | ||
| Puerperal | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 2 (—) | 2(—) | 3 (1) | -(-) | -(-) | 1 (-) | |
| Typhus | -(1) | - (-) | — (—) | -(-) | – (–) | – (–) | — (-) | -(-) | |
| Totals | 107 (103) | 100 (170) | 88 (96) | 91 (115) | 150 (171) | 25 (22) | 15 (13) | 48 (42) | |
| Rates, 1904 | 6.36 | 5.58 | 4.54 | 3.69 | 5.53 | 2.96 | 1.89 | 3.45 | |
| „ 1903 | 6.08 | 5.99 | 5.00 | 4.72 | 6.37 | 2.60 | 1.63 | 3.02 | |
| „ 1902 | 8.82 | 7.77 | 4.61 | 6.57 | 7.46 | 3.01 | 3.09 | 3.03 | |
| „ 1901 | 9.96 | 9.36 | 7.46 | 7.13 | 9.11 | 3.54 | 4.65 | 4.52 | |