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Paddington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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sickness.
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were reported in the two years. The morbidity ("notification") rate for last year was 6.04
per 1,000 persons, as compared with rates of 7.28 and 3.81 in 1906 and 1905 respectively, and
a mean rate of 5.39 for the five years 1902-06. Increases in the total numbers of cases (all
diseases) were recorded in Harrow Road, Westbourne, and Hyde Park Wards. (See Table 5).
Comparing last year's rates with the quinquennial mean rates, increases are to be noted in
all Wards except Church and Lancaster Gate, West. The greatest increase (2.22) was in
Harrow Road Ward, and the smallest (0.02) in Lancaster Gate, East, Ward.
TABLE 4.
Notifications.
Paddington.
Corrected for duplicate certificates only.
| Smallpox | Diphtheria. | Membranous.Croup. | Erysipelas | Fevers. | Totals. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet. | Enteric. | Continued. | Puerperal | ||||||
| Cases certified— | - | ||||||||
| 1906 | - | ||||||||
| Morbidity Rates 1907 | - | 0.00 | |||||||
0.00=a rate less than 0.01 per 1,000.
TABLE 5.
Notifications.
Ward Distribution.
| Queen's Park. | Harrow Road. | Maida Vale. | West-bourne. | Church. | Lancaster West. | Gate. East. | Hyde. Park. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -(-) | -(-) | - (-) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) | |||
| 6 (5) | 6 (6) | ||||||||
| 1 (—) | 1 (-) | ||||||||
| 12 (7) | |||||||||
| 12 (18) | |||||||||
| 6 (2) | 1 (2) | ||||||||
| -(-) | 1 (1) | -(-) | -(-) | - (-) | -(-) | -(-) | -(-) -(-) | ||
| 1 (4) | 2 (2) | i (1) | -(-) | -(-) | |||||
Note.—Figures in parenthesis, numbers for 1906.