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Paddington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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diphtheria.
TABLE 14.
| Diphtheria. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907. | Mean. 1902-06. | 1907. | Mean. 1902-06. | 1907. | Mean. 1902-06. | |
| Removed to Hospital* | 86.7 | 92.5 | 74.2 | |||
| Fatality † | ||||||
| At Home | 19.0 | 2.3 | 33.3 | |||
| In Hospital | 13.9 | 2.3 | 9.0 | |||
| Total | 14.6 | 2.3 | 16.6 | |||
| Mortality ‡ | 0.13 | 0.08 | 0.03 | |||
* Per cent. of all cases reported.
† Per cent. of cases after correction for errors of diagnosis.
‡ Per 1,000 persons—all on deaths recorded.
The deaths from diphtheria numbered 20 last year, 5 more than in the previous year.
The crude mortality was 0.13 per 1,000 persons, 0.03 above that for 1906, 0.02 above the
mean for 1902-06.
According to the figures of the Registrar-General, the morbidity rate for the Borough
last year was 1.12, Westminster (0.84) and Marylebone (1.00) being the only two districts
with lower rates. (See Table 7). The crude mortality rates are given in Table 11, and the
corrected in Table 15. According to the figures in the latter table the local rate (0.17) was,
with the exception of that of Kensington (0.18) the highest of the series. The differences
between the corrected rates and the standard are remarkable, those between last year's and
the mean rates, small.
TABLE 15.
Mortality Rates.*
"Corrected."
| Diphtheria. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Rate. | 1907. | Mean 1902-06. | Standard Rate. | 1907. | Mean. 1902-06. | Standard Rate. | 1907. | Mean. 1902-06. | |
| Paddington | 0.39 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.10 | 0.14 | 0.03 | |||
| London | 0.50 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.04 | |||
| Kensington | 0.36 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.14 | 0.03 | |||
| Westminster | 0.32 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.15 | 0.04 | |||
| Marylebone | 0.37 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.19 | 0.14 | 0.01 | |||
| Hampstead | 0.36 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.02 | |||
| Willesden | 0.56 | 0.11 | 0.19 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.02 | |||
* Per 1,000 persons, corrected by "factors" for sex-age composition of populations
Deaths corrected for non-residents, &c.