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Paddington 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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DEATHS.
Table 10 gives the recorded numbers of notifications in the Extra-Metropolitan Areas of
England and Wales during 1911 and 1912, with the corresponding morbidity rates. The Port
notifications represent almost entirely cases of infectious disease contracted abroad, and therefore
indicate the frequency of introduction of infection into this country—or more exactly, the
numbers of cases stopped at the ports of entry and thus prevented from spreading disease within
the country. Scarlet fever, enteric fever, and puerperal fever all appear to have been more
prevalent in Extra-Metropolitan England and Wales during 1912 than in 1911.
TABLE 10. Notifications.
| England and Wales, excluding London. | Ports. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases Reported. | Morbidity Rates.* | Cases Reported. | ||||
| 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | |
| Smallpox | 193 | 0.01 | 30 | |||
| Diphtheria† | 40,343 | 1.28 | 55 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 94,117 | 2.98 | 34 | |||
| Enteric Fever‡ | 12,859 | 0.21 | 125 | |||
| Puerperal Fever | 1,724 | 2.24 | — | |||
| Typhus Fever | 64 | 0.00 | — | |||
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | ||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | ||||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | ||||||
* Rates per 1,000 persons of all ages, except puerperal fever, per 1,000 births registered,
† Including membranous croup. ‡Including continued fever.
DEATHS : Mortality.
Crude Figures.—The deaths registered within the Borough during the year numbered
1,889 (947 of males and 942 of females), and were equal to a crude* mortality rate of 13.27 per
1,000 of the estimated population. Last year's total was 185 below that of 1911 (2,074) and 204
below the average for 1907-11 (2,093). Reference to Table I., Appendix A, will show that last
year's total was the lowest recorded since 1902 and is believed to be the lowest on record. The
crude mortality (13.27) recorded last year was 2.54 less than the rate for 1902 (15.81). As will
be seen from the statement given below, the crude rate recorded in each quarter of the year was
below the corresponding rate for 1911 and the average for 1907-11, except in the fourth quarter.
Mortality Rates: Crude. Per 1,000 Persons.
| Quarter— | 1st. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 16.95 | 13.78 | 14.03 | 13.44 |
| 1907.11 | 17.96 | 13.96 | 12.04 | 14.44 |
*The "crude" rate is that based on the number of deaths registered within the district during the year ; the
"nett" rate, that based on the number after exclusion of deaths of non-residents within and inclusion of those of
residents beyond the district ; and the " corrected " rate, the nett rate multiplied by the correction factor necessary
for the sex-age constitution of the population to reduce the mortality to that of a population of standard sex-age
constitution. On this occasion no corrected rates can be given.