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Paddington 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SEPTIC DISEASES. 19
Twenty-one of the patients received institutional treatment, 16 in the Infirmary, 3 in
St. Mary's Hospital, and one in a M.A.B. Hospital (the erysipelas supervened on an attack
of scarlet fever), and one in the Fulham Infirmary, where the patient had been an inmate for
upwards of two years.
I he deaths from erysipelas number 5, representing a fatality equal to 4'7 per cent, of the
cases, a fatality which compares somewhat strikingly with that due to scarlet fever
(1'7 per cent.).
Other Septic Diseases.—From these diseases (not notified) there were 8 deaths during
the year, viz., 4 from pyaemia (2 each of males and females), 2 from infective endocarditis
(both males) and one each from cancrum oris (a male) and septic pneumonia (a female).
In calculating the mortality from " other septic diseases," deaths from ervsipelas are
included. The total number of deaths was 13 (9 of males and 4 of females), last year's rate
being 008 per 1,000 persons, or 0*02 less than the quinquennial mean (O'lO).