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Paddington 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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MEASLES.
number reported last year, 42 cases being recorded as compared with 28 in 1905. (Table 6.)
There was a slight increase in prevalence in nearly all the adjacent districts, (Table 7.) The
deaths in the Borough numbered 7, the same as in the previous year.
The remaining "septic diseases" caused 11 deaths, one more than in 1905. (Tables IV.
and V., Appendix.) These are usually grouped with those from erysipelas, under the heading
"Other Septic Diseases," to distinguish them from puerperal fever. The total number of
deaths was 18, one in excess of the number recorded in the previous year, and equal to a
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mortality of 0.12 per 1,000 persons, being 0.03 above the mean rate (0.09) for the five
years 1901-05.
TABLE 16.
Childbed Mortality.
| Puerperal Fever. 1 | Mortality per 1,000. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerperal Fever. | Accidents & Diseases of Parturition. | Total in Childbed. | |||||||
| Morbidity % Births. | Fatality I °L Cases. 1 | Births. | Married Women, 15-45 yrs. | Births. | Married Women, 15-45 yrs. | Births. | Married Women, 15-45 yrs. | ||
| Paddington | 1906 | 0.37 | 25.0 | 0.94 | 0.06 | 1.89 | 0.12 | 2.84 | 0.18 |
| Mean.* | |||||||||
| London | 1906 | 0.23 | 64.0 | 1.48 | 0.14 | 1.34 | 0.13 | 2.83 | 0.27 |
| Mean. | |||||||||
| Kensington | 1906 | 0.39 | 53.8 | 2.10 | 0.10 | 2.70 | 0.13 | 4.81 | 0.23 |
| Mean. | 1.76 | ||||||||
| Westminster | 1906 | 0.32 | 55.5 I | 1.80 | 0.08 | 1.44 | 0.06 | 3.25 | 0.14 |
| Mean. | |||||||||
| Marylebone | 1906 | 16.6 | 0.37 | 0.02 | 3.01 | 0.18 | 3.39 | 0.20 | |
| Mean. | |||||||||
| Hampstead | 1906 | 0.13 | 50.0 | 0.69 | 0.02 | 4.18 | 0.17 | 4.88 | 0.19 |
| Mean. | |||||||||
| Willesden | 1906 | 0.21 | 55.5 | 1.20 | 0.12 | 1.44 | 0.15 | 2.64 | |
| Mean. | |||||||||
| *Mean for 1904-05. | |||||||||
*Mean for 1904-05.
MEASLES.
The cases of this disease which came to the knowledge of the Department through
various channels, principally the public elementary schools, numbered 592, the smallest total
reported since systematic efforts have been made to obtain information.
The numbers reported in the Borough during each of the quarters of the years 1903-00, based on weekly