London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
This page requires JavaScript
13
DIPHTHERIA.
TABLE 14.
| Diphtheria. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900. | Mean. 1901-5. | 1906. | Mean. 1901-5. | 1900. | Mean. 1901-05. | |
| Removed to Hospital* | 80.2 | 78.1 | 96.7 | 87.8 | 74.2 | 67.7 |
| Fatality† At Home | 8.3 | 21.5 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 30.0 | 22.3 |
| In Hospital | 7.7 | 8.4 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 18.1 | 14.5 |
| Total | 7.9 | 12.8 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 21.8 | 17.1 |
| Mortality J | 0.10 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 |
| *Per cent, oF all cases recorded. • †Per cent, of cases after correction for errors, &c., as set out in foot notes to Table 13. ‡ Per 1,000 persons of all ages, based on total deaths registered during the year. | ||||||
The total number of deaths from diphtheria was 15, equal to a rate of 0.10 per 1,000
persons, five times that of 1905 (0.02), but 0.05 below the quinquennial mean (0.15). The
nett mortality rates for the Borough, Metropolis and Adjacent Districts are given in Table 10.
In fable 15 will be found the rates fully corrected for differences in sex-age composition of
population. The rates given in both tables are based on the figures published in the Quarterly
Reports of the Registrar General. Mortalities from diphtheria in excess of that for the
Borough were recorded last year in Kensington (0T3) and Westminster (0.14), while the
lowest rate of all was that of Willesden (0.08).
TABLE 15.
Mortality Rates.*
Fully corrected for sex-age composition of populations.
| Diphtheria. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard. | Corrected. | Standard. | Corrected. | Standard. | Corrected. | ||||
| 1906. | Mean.† | 1906. | Mean. | 1906. | Mean. | ||||
| Paddington | 0.39 | 0.12 | 0.22 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.06 | 0.14 | 0.03 | 0.05 |
| London | 0.50 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 0.17 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.05 | 0.07 |
| Kensington | 0.36 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.06 |
| I Westminster | 0.32 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.06 |
| Marylebone | 0.37 | 0.12 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.05 |
| Hampstead | 0.36 | 0.10 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.06 | 0.62 | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.05 |
| Willesden | 0.56 | 0.08 | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.52 | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.05 |
| *Per 1,000 persons.—Based on figures given in Quarterly Reports of the Registrar-General. †Mean 1901-05. | |||||||||