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Paddington 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE 12.
Notifications.
Quarterly Numbers and Averages.
| Wards | Queen's Park. | Harrow Road. | Maida Vale. | Westbourne. | |Church. | Lancaster Gate, West. | Lancaster Gate, East. | Hyde Park. | Borough. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarters | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Diphtheria † | 1906 | 8 | - | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 10 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 22 | 61 | 56 |
| * Average | 6 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 40 | 45 | 64 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 1906 | 7 | 35 | 25 | 73 | 10 | 27 | 33 | 91 | 10 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 26 | 4 | 36 | 85 | 52 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 48 | 164 | 213 | 290 |
| Average | 7 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 20 | 20 | 28 | 29 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 33 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 76 | 84 | 111 | 112 | |
| Enteric Fever | 1906 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 3 | - | 5§ | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
| Average | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 21 | |
| Puerperal Fever | 1906 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Average | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | -- | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
"— " No cases recorded. "0" Average less than unity.
* Average for the five years 1901-05, adjusted to nearest whole number. †Including Membranous Croup.
§ The case of continued fever is included here under enteric and not puerperal fever. (See Table 7.)