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Paddington 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SCARLET FEVER.
TABLE 15.
Diphtheria.
| District. | Cases Notified.* | Cases to Hospital. | Hospital Cases Percent. of Notified Cases. | Deaths. | Fatalities. Per cent. Cases | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Home. | At Hospital. | At Home. | At Hospital. | |||||
| Queen's Park | 7 (2) | 7 (2) | 100 | — | 1 | — | 20.0 | |
| Harrow Road | 36 (3) | 35 (2) | 97 | — | 1 | — | 3.0 | |
| Maida Vale | 10 (1) | 9 (1) | 90 | — | — | — | — | |
| Westbourne | 17 | 15 | 88 | — | 1 | — | 6.6 | |
| Church | 18 (9) | 17 (8) | 94 | — | 1 (1) | — | — | |
| Lancaster Gate(West) | 2 (1) | 2 (1) | 100 | — | — | — | — | |
| „ (East) | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Hyde Park | 2 | 1 | 50 | — | — | — | — | |
| Borough Per centages | 1905 | 96 (16) | 86 (14) | 89.5 | — | 4 (1) | — | 4.1 |
| 1904† | 140 (15) | 101 (11) | 72.1 | 5 | 12 (1) | 14.2 | 12.2 | |
| 1903 | 145 (22) | 123 (15) | 84.8 | 2 | 15 (2) | 13.3 | 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.
† Two further deaths from diphtheria were recorded, one each Queen's Park and Harrow Road Wards, but as
the cases were not notified, the deaths have been excluded from this table.
‡ 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.
TABLE 16.
Corrected Mortality—Diphtheria.
| Standard Rate. | Correction Factor. | Corrected Rates. | Differences, 1905, from | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905. | Mean, 1901-04. | Standard Rate. | Mean Rate. | |||
| London | 0.50 | — | 0.11 | 0.21 | — 0.39 | — 0.10 |
| Paddington | 0.39 | 1.27891 | 0.02 | 0.28 | — 0.37 | — 0.26 |
| Kensington | 0.36 | 1.37657 | 0.04 | 0.20 | — 0.32 | — 0.16 |
| Westminster | 0.32 | 1.58515 | 0.03 | 0.15 | — 0.29 | — 0.12 |
| Marylebone | 0.37 | 1.36729 | 0.04 | 0.24 | — 0.33 | — 0.20 |
| Hampstead | 0.36 | 1.36920 | 0.04 | 0.17 | — 0.32 | — 0.13 |
| Willesden | 0.56 | 0.89729 | 0.08 | 0.24 | — 0.48 | — 0.16 |
SCARLET FEVER.
| Borough. | London. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905. | 1904. | 1903. | 1905. | 1904. | 1903. | |
| Cases notified | 277 | 365 | 414 | 19,469 | 13,451 | 12,545 |
| Deaths | 6 | 8 | 9 | 549 | 365 | 361 |
| Morbidity* | 1.87 | 2.48 | 2.83 | 4.15 | 2.89 | 2.71 |
| Fatality | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.8 |
| Mortality | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.07 |
* See notes under Smallpox