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Paddington 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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NOTIFICATIONS.
TABLE 8.
Sickness Rates.
Per 1,000 persons of all ages.
(Based on the figures (for 1905) given in Table 8.)
| Paddington. | London. | Kensington. | Westminster. | Marylebone. | Hampstead. | Willesden. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | 1905 | Mean | 1905 | Mean | 1905 | Mean | 1905 | Mean | 1905 | Mean | 1905 | Mean | 1905 | Mean | |
| 0.01 | 0.24 | 0.01 | 0.56 | . | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.52 | . | 0.45 | . | 0.08 | — | 0.23 | ||
| Diphtheria* | 0.65 | .46 | 1.46 | 2.05 | 0.72 | 1.12 | 0.68 | 1.20 | 1.01 | 1.58 | 0.74 | l.66 | 1.99 | 2.85 | |
| Erysipelas | 0.91 | 0.89 | 1.05 | 1.05 | 0.87 | 0.94 | 0.70 | 0.08 | 1.24 | 1.44 | 0.49 | 0.59 | 0.02 | 0.66 | |
| Fevers | Scarlet | 1.87 | 2.81 | 4.15 | 3.39 | 1.87 | 2.03 | 2.09 | 2.23 | 2.14 | 2.87 | 2.04 | 2.41 | 2.87 | 3.73 |
| Enteric† | 0.30 | 0.45 | 0.33 | 0.59 | 0.30 | 0.42 | 0.23 | 0.48 | 0.35 | 0.56 | 0.21 | 0.45 | 0.29 | 0.42 | |
| Puerperal | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.04 | |
| * Including membranous croup. .†Including continued fever. | |||||||||||||||
Distributing the cases according to the Wards in which the patients resided (Table 9) a general reduction in the cases of the various diseases is to be noted. The principal exceptions are:—
| Cases. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Disease. | Ward. | 1904. | 1905. |
| Diphtheria | Harrow Road | 32 | 36 |
| Scarlet Fever | Lancaster Gate—West | 15 | 26 |
| ” | „ —East | 4 | 10 |
| Enteric Fever | Queen's Park | 1 | 4 |
| ” | Harrow Road | 3 | 8 |
| Maida Vale | 8 | 17 | |
TABLE 9.
Notifications, 1905.
Distributed according to Wards.
Numbers for 1904 shown (italics).
| I. Queen's Park. | II. Harrow Road. | III. Maida Vale. | IV. West. bourne. | V. Church. | VI. Lancaster West. | VII. Gate. East. | VIII. Hyde. Park. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | .(1) | .(2) | 1 (.) | .(.) | 1 (.) | .(.) | .(.) | ||
| Diphtheria | T (17) | 34 (32) | 10 (28) | 10 (16) | 18 (28) | 3 (4) | |||
| MembranousCroup | 2 (—) | — (—) | 1 (.) | — (—) | — (—) | 1 (.) | |||
| Erysipelas | 18 (11) | 34 (27) | 19 (20) | 23 (13) | 28 (35) | 1 (4) | 11(4) | ||
| Fevers | 'Scarlet | 24 (76) | 77 (95) | 33 (29) | 38 (46) | 51 (73) | 26 (15) | 10 (4) | 18 (27) |
| Enteric | 4 (/) | 17 (8) | 1 (5) | 3(5) | |||||
| Puerperal | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (2) | 3(5) | .(.) | 1 (1) | |||
| Totals | 54 (107) | 156 (160) | 79 (88) | 86 (91) | 105 (150) | 33 (25) | 16 (15) | 35 (48) | |
| Rates, 1905 | 3.24 | 5.38 | 4.03 | 3.46 | 3.84 | 3.91 | 2.02 | ||
| „ 1901 | 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 | 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 | |
In Table 10 the sex.age distribution of the cases reported is given. The weekly
numbers of cases of the principal diseases are shown in Fig. I. (page 9), the decennial
average number for each week being indicated by the broken line.