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Paddington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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small-pox.
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The deaths of residents of the Borough during the year are distributed according to
causes and sex and ages of the deceased in Table III. of the Appendix, and again according
to Wards (causes of death, persons, all ages) in Table IV.
SMALLPOX.
No case of this disease was reported in the Borough during the past year. In the
Metropolis only 9 cases were notified (some of them undoubtedly erroneously diagnosed)
as compared with 31 in 1906. There were no deaths from this cause within the Metropolis
during the year.
As will be seen from the appended statement, compiled from the Weekly Returns issued
by the Local Government Board, there were only 119 cases among the inhabitants (amounting
to nearly 15 millions at the last census) of the 255 Extra-Metropolitan Boroughs, &c., reporting
weekly to the Board the numbers of notifications received. The diminution in prevalence of
the disease during the last few years is remarkable and very satisfactory.
| Metropolis. | Extra-Metropolitan Districts. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarters— | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | Year. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | Year. |
| - | ||||||||||
From information supplied by the Vaccination Officer, the appended table of the results
of the Vaccination Acts has been compiled. It is with satisfaction that a slight increase in
the proportion of children successfully vaccinated during the last completed year (1906), has
to be recorded.
| Births. | Successfully Vaccinated. | Insusceptible of Vaccination. | Died Unvaccinated. | Per cent. of | Births. Cols. 2, 3, & 4. | Vaccination Postponed. | Certificates under Act granted for. | Remaining (not traced, &c.)* | Per cent, of Births. Cols. 6, 7, & 8. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cols. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
* Including "gone away," "false addresses," apprisals to other districts, &c. † Provisional return only.
DIPHTHERIA.
The cases of diphtheria reported last year numbered 154, 28 fewer than in 1906. There
were, however, 6 cases of membranous croup, a term which is deemed to be synonymous with
diphtheria, as compared with none in the preceding year. I he total number of cases is,
therefore, taken as 100, or 22 less than the total for 1906. In Harrow Road Ward only was