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Paddington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TUBERCULAR DISEASES
TABLE 17.
Tubercular Diseases.
Nett Mortalities Per 1,000 Persons, all ages.
| Queen's Park. | Harrow Road. | Maida Vale. | Westbourne. | Church. | Lancaster Gate. | Hyde Park. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | East. | |||||||
| Phthisis Pulmonalis— | ||||||||
| 1907 | 1.75 | 0.84 | 1.04 | 1.18 | 1.36 | 0.23 | 0.38 | 0.64 |
| 1902-06 | ||||||||
| Other Tubercular | ||||||||
| Diseases—1907 | 0.42 | 0.47 | 0.19 | 0.55 | 0.64 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.21 |
| 1902-06 | ||||||||
* Mean, 1892-96=0.59.
For comparison with the circumjacent districts, the rate (1.09) obtained from data
furnished by the Registrar-General's Annual Summary has been used. (Table 11). That
rate shows an increase of 0.01 above the quinquennial mean rate, whereas last year's rates in
all the other districts show decreases, some of them proportionately large. The "corrected"
rates for the Borough, its Wards and the circumjacent districts are given in Table 18.
Those figures show that while the Borough rate for last year was 0.76 below the "standard,"
it was equal to the mean; that last year's rate for Queen's Park, was slightly above
the standard, the other Ward rates being all below; that last year's rates for Queen's Park,
Maida Vale and Westbourne Wards were in excess of their respective means; and that the
rates for last year in the circumjacent districts were all below the respective standards and
also below their means.
TABLE 18.
Rates Corrected for Age and Sex. Based on London Mortality experience.
| Percentage of total population (Census 1901). | Phthisis Pulmonalis. | Cancer. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons per acre. | "Overcrowded." | Living in homes of less than 5 rooms. | Standard Rate. | Fully Corrected Rate. | Standard Rate. | Fully Corrected Rate. | |||
| 1907. | Mean. 1902-06. | 1907. | Mean. 1902-06. | ||||||
| Paddington | 106 | 13.6 | 50.9 | 1.80 | 1.04 | 0.98 | 1.05 | ||
| Queen's Park | Not known. | 9.1 | 51.7 | 1.73 | 1.75 | 0.83 | 0.69 | ||
| Harrow Road | 11.5 | 75.5 | 1.77 | 0.82 | 0.88 | 1.12 | |||
| Maida Vale | 12.6 | 43.4 | 1.82 | 0.99 | 1.01 | 1.37 | |||
| Westbourne | 13.4 | 46.3 | 1.80 | 1.13 | 1.17 | 0.91 | |||
| Church | 32.8 | 61.3 | 1.68 | 1.40 | 0.87 | 1.11 | |||
| Lancaster Gate, West | 2.6 | 15.2 | 1.84 | 0.22 | 1.02 | 1.00 | |||
| Lancaster Gate, East | 2.1 | 16.2 | 1.84 | 0.36 | 1.02 | 0.86 | |||
| 5.2 | 25.3 | 1.88 | 0.59 | 1.07 | 1.22 | ||||
| London | 61 | 16.0 | 54.0 | 1.74 | 1.39 | 0.87 | 1.03 | ||
| Kensington | 77 | 14.8 | 41.7 | 1.78 | 1.00 | 1.02 | 0.94 | ||
| Westminster | 73 | 13.0 | 45.7 | 1.95 | 1.21 | 0.96 | 0.84 | ||
| Marylebone | 90 | 21.1 | 55.6 | 1.85 | 1.38 | 0.99 | 1.01 | ||
| Hampstead | 36 | 6.4 | 29.6 | 1.75 | 0.69 | 0.92 | 0.71 | ||
| Willesden | 21 | 11.6 | 50.7 | 1.65 | 0.96 | 0.71 | 0.89 | ||