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Paddington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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deaths. 7
Comparing the Borough with the circumjacent districts and the Metropolis (Table 7) it
will be seen that as regards
Diphtheria (including membranous croup).
Lower rates were recorded last year in Westminster (0.84) and Marylebone (1.00) than in the Borough (1.12).
In those two Boroughs and in Willesden last year's rates were below the quinquennial means, but in the
others, above.
Scarlet fever.
Greater prevalence in all districts, the maximum increase over the mean being recorded in Paddington
(0.96), but that increase is little more than half the increase which occurred in the Metropolis as a whole
(1.85). The smallest increase took place in Westminster (0.13).
Enteric fever (including continued fever).
With the exception of Willesden (rate 0.18) the local rate (0.22) is the lowest of the series, last year's rates
being in every case lower than the mean rates.
Puerperal fever.
The Willesden rate (0.08) is the only one above the mean, but in two of the Boroughs - Marylebone and
Hampstead—last year's rates were equal to the mean. The local rate was approximately in the middle
of the series.
TABLE 7.
Morbidity Rates.*
| Paddington. | London. | Kensington. | Westminster. | Marylebone. | Hampstead. | Willesden. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | Mean 1902-6 | 1907 | Mean 1902-6 | 1907 | Mean 1902-6 | 1907 | Mean 1902-6 | 1907 | Mean 1902-6 | 1907 | Mean 1902-6 | 1907 | Mean 1902-6 | ||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
* Compiled from Quarterly Reports of the Registrar-General.
Rates per 1,000 persons.
The curves in the chart facing this show the weekly fluctuations in the (annual) morbidity
rates (per 1,000 persons) from scarlet fever and diphtheria in the Borough and in the
Metropolis, based on the numbers of cases recorded during the past year and the weekly
averages for the preceding ten years.
DEATHS.
The deaths registered within the Borough during the year numbered 2,154, being 113
more than the number registered in 1906, and equal to a mortality of 14.40 per 1,000 persons.
During the decennium 1897-1900, the average annual number of deaths was 2,262, and the
mean mortality 15.02. (See Table I., Appendix.)
The 2,154 deaths included 372 of non-residents, while 232 deaths of residents
occurred outside the Borough. The nett total of deaths of parishioners during the
year was, therefore, 2,014, being 171 in excess of the number for the preceding year. The