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Paddington 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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46 TUBERCULOSIS.
mortality recorded since 1891 was 0.28 (in 1908). Last year's rate was the highest of those from
this cause included in Table 13.
The Ward rates for the past year varied from zero (Lancaster Gate, West, Ward) to 0 68 in
Church Ward. In Maida Vale, Westbourne, and Church Wards last year's rates were in excess
of the averages. (See below.)
Other Tuberculous Diseases. Mortality Rates.-Wards.
| Queen's Park. | Harrow Road. | Maida Vale. | Westbourne. | Church. | Lancaster Gate, | Hyde Park. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West. | East. | |||||||
| 1912 | 0.31 | 0.22 | 0.33 | 0.34 | 0.68 | - | 0.12 | 9.16 |
| 1911 | 0.43 | 0.37 | 0.33 | 0.25 | 0.56 | - | - | 0.39 |
| 1907.11 | 0.37 | 0.40 | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.55 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.21 |
TABLE 26. Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Analysis of Reported Cases. 1912.
| Medically Certified. | Not Medically Certified. From Dispensary " S." | Grand Totals. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under Poor Law Order. | Under Public Institutions Order from | Under Private Practitioners Order. | Other Sources. | Totals. | ||||
| Dispensary. | Other Institutions. | |||||||
| First Certificates received | 159 | 469 | 163 | 357 | 16 | 1,162 | 239 | 1,403 |
| Survivors, 1911 | 46 | 122 | 38 | 39 | 3 | 248 | - | 248 |
| Certified by Dispensary | 23 | - | 24 | 43 | 5 | 95 | - | 95 |
| ,, Poor Law | - | - | 13 | 12 | - | 25 | - | 25 |
| ,, Other Institutions | - | - | - | 18 | - | 18 | - | 18 |
| Totals | 69 | 122 | 75 | 112 | 8 | 386 | - | 386 |
| New Cases reported | 90 | 347 | 88 | 245 | 8 | 778 | 239 | 1,017* |
| New Cases terminated during year: | ||||||||
| Died from Phthisis | 27 | 10 | 5 | 24 | - | 66 | - | 66 |
| „ other causes | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | - | 10 | - | 10 |
| Totals | 28 | 12 | 7 | 29 | - | 76 | - | 76 |
| Lost sight of (removals) | 7 | 25 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 55 | 5 | 60 |
| Diagnosis reviewed | 6 | 1 | - | 5 | - | 12 | - | 12 |
| Reported ''arrested " | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 41 | 38 | 15 | 47 | 2 | 143 | 5 | 148 |
| Survivors, 1913 | 49 | 309 | 73 | 198 | 6 | 635 | 234 | 869 |
*This figure does not include 57 "Suspect" cases reported as definite during 1912.