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Paddington 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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mortality in childhood.
TABLE 36.
| Week ending | Dates of Onset of Attack. | Dates of Death. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recovering. | Dying.* | Deaths. | Cases and Deaths. | All Deaths. | Dying. | Deaths. | ||
| June | 10 | 2 | - | - | 2 | |||
| 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| 24 | 6 | 1 | - | 7 | 2 | 2 | - | |
| July | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| 15 | 12 | - | - | 12 | - | - | - | |
| 22 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 16 | - | - | ||
| 29 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| August | 5 | 22 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 12 | 43 | 9 | 11 | 63 | 12 | 4 | 8 | |
| 19 | 47 | 5 | 12 | 64 | 16 | 7 | 9 | |
| 26 | 44 | 6 | 8 | 58 | 17 | 4 | 13 | |
| September | 2 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 3 | 12 |
| 9 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 28 | 6 | 3 | 3 | |
| 16 | 14 | 2 | - | 16 | 12 | 6 | 6 | |
| 23 | 12 | 1 | - | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | |
| 30 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
| October | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| 14 | 4 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | |
| 21 | 4 | 1 | - | 5 | 3 | 3 | - | |
| 28 | 5 | - | - | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| November | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 11 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| 18 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | |
| 25 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| December | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Not known | ... | 20 | 10 | 21 | 51 | - | - | |
| Totals | ... | 330 | 57 | 69 | 456 | 126 | 57 | 69 |
* By " Dying " is meant the reported cases which terminated fatally, irrespective of the certified cause of death.
The sex-age distribution of known attacks and deaths registered is given in Table 37.
More cases were known among boys than among girls, that sex distribution prevailing at all
ages, but in the case of the deaths the excess was among girls. Data are not available for
calculating attack rates for the age periods, but the appended comparison of proportional age
distribution of cases, as noted last year in the Borough and as recorded in an investigation
conducted in Islington during 1857-62, is of some interest.
Percentage of Total Attacks (Persons).
At Ages. Paddington. Islington.
Months. (1911.) (1857-62.)
0— 8.5 6.3
3— 16.2 14.6
6— 15.7 14.5
9— 15.7 11.5
12—24 43.6 55.0
The differences in age incidence exhibited by the above figures can probably be explained
by the change which has undoubtedly taken place in the method of feeding. At the present
time a larger proportion of young children are artificially fed, whereas breast feeding was
almost universal in the earlier period.