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Paddington 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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INFANTILE MORTALITY
"cirrhosis of the liver"), as compared with an average (uncorrected) of 42, while the
mortality per 1,000 persons decreased from 0.27 to 0.25. (Table 22.) This is the first
The appended statement of the numbers of deaths of each sex from the different
forms of alcoholic poisoning is not without interest, A difference in the habits of the two sexes is suggested by the smaller numbers of deaths from the acute form and the larger, from cirrhosis of the liver among females.
| Acute Alcoholism. | Chronic Alcoholism. | Cirrhosis of the liver. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 1901 | 1 | - | 8 | 7 | 8 | 13 |
| 1902 | 3 | - | 8 | 12 | 13 | 12 |
| 1903 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 8 |
| 1904 | 2 | - | 5 | 9 | 10 | 12 |
| 1905 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
| 1906 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 16 |
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths registered within the Borough during the past year included 395 of infants
under one year, 46 less than the number for 1905, and equivalent to a rate of 125 per 1,000
births registered, as compared with 139 in the previous year. The deaths were 117 below
the decennial average (512), and the lowest on record. The mortality rate was 26 below the
mean (151), and also the lowest on record. (See Table I., Appendix.) The rates for last
year are compared with the corresponding means for 1901-05, below:—
Quarters 1. 2. 3. 4. Year.
1906 102 88 187 121 125
Mean, 1901-05 140 113 170 140 141
After correcting for deaths of children of non-resident parents dying within the Borough,,
and for deaths belonging to the Borough taking place beyond its limits, a nett total of 353 is
obtained—133 less than the decennial average (486), and the lowest total on record since
1895. The nett mortality rate was 112 per 1,000 births registered within the Borough—
30 less than the mean for the previous five years, and, with the exception of that for 1903
(108), the lowest rate recorded since 1892. The nett totals and rates for the three
Registration Sub-Districts are given in Table II., Appendix.
In Table 10 will be found the races for the adjacent districts. That of Kensington was
the highest of the series, and that of Hampstead the lowest. All the rates for last year were
below the mean rates for 1901-05.
In calculating the infantile mortality for local comparisons, the births have been
corrected by the exclusion of those not belonging to the Borough, &c., in the same way as
the deaths. The rates for the year thus obtained in the Borough and the Wards are given in
Table 23, rate? for the two sexes being included in addition to those for "persons." In four
of the wards there was a decrease in the mortality in comparison with the preceding year,
the greatest reduction being that in Harrow Road Ward (35 per cent.). In three wards the
mortalitv was greater, the worst change taking place in Hyde Park Ward, where the increase
amounted to 46 per cent. The mortality in Church Ward was the same in the two years.