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Paddington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SEPTIC DISEASES.
was 0.09 below the mean rate in the Borough (Table 10), decreases being also recorded in all
the circumjacent districts except Willesden (rate 1907,0.31; mean, 0.22). In Kensington and
Westminster all the cases were evidently not reported during life, inasmuch as the fatalities
per cent. of the cases reported, were in those districts over 100 as compared with mean
fatalities of little more than 50 per cent. in each case. In the Borough and the other districts
increases in the fatality of the disease were recorded in all districts except Hampstead
(rate, 1907, 33.3; mean, 34.7). In the Borough last year's fatality was 66.6, and the
mean 50.9.
TABLE 16.
Childbed Mortality.
| Puerperal Fever. | Mortality per 1,000. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerperal Fever. | Accidents & Diseases of Parturition. | Total in Childbed. | |||||||
| Morbidity per 100 Births. | Fatality per 100 Cases. | Births. | Women, Aged 15-45 Yrs. | Births. | Women, Aged 15-45 yrs. | Births. | Women, Aged 15-45 yrs. | ||
| Paddington | 1907 | 0.19 | 66.6 | 1.30 | 0.06 | 3.57 | 0.21 | 4.87 | 0.27 |
| 1902-06 | |||||||||
| London | 1907 | 0.20 | 59.2 | 1.23 | 0.10 | 1.53 | 0.14 | 2.76 | 0.24 |
| 1902-06 | |||||||||
| Kensington | 1907 | 0.06 | 150.0 | 0.91 | 0.02 | 1.82 | 0.08 | 0.10 | |
| 1902-06 | |||||||||
| Westminster | 1907 | 0.11 | 100.0 | 1.09 | 0.03 | 1.09 | 0.03 | 2.18 | 0.06 |
| 1902-06 | |||||||||
| Marylebone | 1907 | 0.17 | 57.1 | 1.54 | 0.09 | 1.54 | 0.09 | 3.08 | 0.18 |
| 1902-06 | |||||||||
| Hampstead | 1907 | 0.22 | 33.3 | 0.75 | 0.02 | 1.50 | 0.10 | ||
| 1902-06 | |||||||||
| Willesden | 1907 | 0.31 | 69.2 | 2.16 | 0.21 | 2.88 | 0.28 | 5.04 | 0.49 |
| 1902-06 | |||||||||
The mortality in childbed is the sum of the mortalities due to puerperal fever and
"accidents and diseases of parturition." Last years rate (per 1,000 births) for the
Borough, was 4.87 (Table 16), as compared with a quinquennial mean of 3.65, whereas
the rate (per 1,000 women aged 15-45 years, the fecund ages) was 0.27 and the mean 0.22.
Lower rates were recorded last year in all the circumjacent districts except in Willesden.
Other Septic Diseases.—Erysipelas.—The notified cases numbered 124 last year, being
14 fewer than the total for 1906 (Table 4). The morbidity was at the rate of 0.82 per 1,000
persons, or 0.07 below the quinquennial mean. Decreased morbidities were recorded