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Paddington 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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INFANTILE MORTALITY
TABLE 28a.
Diarrhœal Mortality.
Under one year of age.
| Deaths from | Proportion Per cent. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diarrhæa Dysenterv. | Epidemic Enteritis. | Enteritis. | Total "Diarrhœa" | Births. | Deaths. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | P. | 0—1. | |||
| Borough | 30 | 24 | 26 | 33 | 8 | 3 | 124 | 3.7 | 35.1 | |
| Wards. | Queen's Park | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | 16 | 3.5 | 38.0 |
| Harrow Road | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | - | 22 | 2.6 | 35.0 | |
| Maida Vale | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 2.8 | 26.0 | ||
| Westbourne | 6 | 2 | 7 | - | 1 | 18 | 3.8 | 32.7 | ||
| Church | 9 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 44 | 5.7 | 39.0 | |
| Lancaster Gate— West | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| East | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 4.2 | 50.0 | |
| Hyde Park | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 4.5 | 36.0 | ||
TABLE 28b.
Diarrhœa Mortality.
Ages at Death.
| Weeks. | Months. | Total under One Year. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0— | 1— | 2— | 3 | 1— | 1 2- | 3- | 4— | 5- | 6— | 7- | 8 | 9- | 10 | 11— | ||
| Diarrhœa* | ||||||||||||||||
| Qr. 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 10 |
| <V 9 LJ • • • | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 5 | - | 4 | 81 |
| 4 | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 16 |
| Year | - | - | 3 | 5 | 16 | - | 17 | - | 13 | 6 ! 11 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 113 | |
| Enteritis | < | |||||||||||||||
| Qr. 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Year | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 11 |
| *Including "Diarrhœa, Dysentery," and " Epidemic (Zymotic) Enteritis." | ||||||||||||||||
It will be seen from Table 28b that the incidence of mortality was greatest at the ages
1—6 months, and that 83 deaths (rather more than two-thirds of the total) occurred in the
third quarter of the year. For the latter reason, the deaths during that quarter have been
regularly tabulated with great minuteness for some years in connection with the principal
meteorological data. A few observations based on the records of the past eight years
(1899-1906) will not be out of place.†
†It should be stated that for this work a slightly different classification has been used, deaths from "want
of breast milk" and "atrophy" being included as due (during this quarter of the year, at least) to the causes
producing "diarrhœa," and also deaths during the second year of life.