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Paddington 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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other diseases.
Particulars as to sites and nature of the "cancer" will be found in the annexed Table. TABLE 26. "Cancer." 1904.
| 1Organ, &c., affected. | St. Mary. | St. John. | North-West Paddington. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. | O. | C. | O. | C. | O. | |||||||
| M. | F. | \1. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F.1 | |
| 1. Nervous System, Brain | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | |||||
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| 3. Respiratory System, Larynx | ... | 1 | ... | "i | 1 | ... | 1 | |||||
| 1 | ... | 1 | ... | |||||||||
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||
| 5. Digestive System, Tongue | 2 | ... | 2 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ...... | 1 | ||||||
| 6 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| 3 | 2 | ... | 3 | 6 | 5 | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| 4 | 6 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | l | 1 | ... | |||
| 4 | 7 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | l | ... | ... | |||
| 1 | 3 | 1 | ... | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ||||||||
| 6. Lymphatic SysteM | 1 | 3 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | |||||
| 7. Urinary System | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 8. Generative System, Testes Ova ries | 1 | 1 | l | ... | ||||||||
| ... | 11 | ... | 4 | 1 | ... | 2 | ||||||
| 15 | 4 | 7 | ... | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 9. Osseous & Muscular Systems | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ||||||
| 10. Cutaneous System | ... | ... | 3 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | |||||
| 11. Insufficiently described | 1 | 2 | ... | l | ... | ... | ... | |||||
| Totals | 24 | 53 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 3 | l |
"C." includes Cancer (31 deaths), Carcinoma (71 deaths), and Malignant Disease (19 deaths').
"O." includes Sarcoma 17 deaths), Scirrhus (8 deaths), Epithelioma (9 deaths), and Glioma (1 death).
" M."—Males. "F."—Females.
OTHER DISEASES.
Influenza.-—There were 44 (26). deaths from this cause, equal to a rate of 0.30 (0.17) per
1,000 persons of all ages, and 0.13 below the mean (0.43). The deaths in St. Mary numbered
27 (21), equal to a rate of 0.28 (mean 0.45), those in St. John 8 (3), rate 0.24 (mean 0.42), and
those in North-West Paddington 9 (2), rate 0.53 (mean 0.37).
Respiratory Diseases.—From bronchitis (acute and chronic) there were 194 (160) deaths,
54 less than the decennial average, and from the various forms of pneumonia 120 (141), 24
less than the average. The mortalities were 1.32 and 0.82 respectivelv, the mean rates being
1.71 and 0.90, thus showing fair reductions. In St. Mary there were 144 (121) deaths from
bronchitis, and 79 (99) from pneumonia. The corresponding mortalities were 1.51 and 0.80,
compared with decennial mean rates of 1.99 and 1.08. In St. John the deaths numbered 19
from each cause, while the deaths from these causes in 1903 numbered 23 and 16 respectively.
The mortality (0.57 from each cause) was 0.47 below the mean rate for bronchitis and 0.01
above that from pneumonia. In North-West Paddington 31 (10) deaths were registered from
bronchitis, rate 1.84 (mean 1.55) and 22 (22) from pneumonia, rate 1.31 (mean 1.08). The
decennial averages were: bronchitis 27 deaths, pneumonia 19.
* Figures for 1903 shown thus.