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Paddington 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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62 MORTALITY IN CHILDHOOD.
TABLE 37.
| Week of Inquiry. | Cases. | Deaths. | Flies. Average per "Cemetery." | Earth Temp. Weekly Mean at 4 ft. | Air Temp. Weekly Mean. | Total Rainfall. Inches. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | º 56.17 | º 58.73 | º 5.42 | 62.3 | 0.99 | 0.00 | |||
| 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 19 | 56.73 | 58.76 | 5.81 | 5.70 | 0.39 | 0.66 |
| 3 | 6 | 7 | - | 2 | 15 | 28 | 58.11 | 68.98 | 61.7 | 59.2 | 0.65 | 0.94 |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 26 | 59.95 | 58.72 | 60.2 | 57.5 | 0.30 | 0.50 |
| 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 38 | 59.73 | 59.80 | 58.7 | 65.6 | 0.36 | - |
| 6 | 6 | 12 | 1 | - | 30 | 54 | 60.75 | 62.16 | 67.0 | 65.2 | 0.20 | - |
| 7 | 4 | 16 | - | - | 36 | 74 | 63.65 | 63.31 | 65.8 | 69.5 | 0.04 | - |
| 8 | 10 | 20 | - | 2 | 34 | 103 | 63.22 | 65.17 | 64.8 | 7.10 | 0.16 | 0.26 |
| 9 | 14 | 32 | 7 | 6 | 44 | 86 | 63.09 | 66.11 | 5.78 | 68.0 | 0.54 | 0.06 |
| 10 | 13 | 63 | 3 | 12 | 34 | 121 | 61.57 | 66.43 | 57.6 | 72.5 | 1.26 | 0.00 |
| 11 | 4 | 64 | 3 | 16 | 36 | 153 | 60.48 | 67.06 | 56.2 | 69.4 | 0.23 | 0.58 |
| 12 | 3 | 58 | 1 | 17 | 44 | 141 | 60.22 | 66.39 | 57.2 | 63.9 | 1.27 | 0.29 |
| 13 | 4 | 25 | 1 | 15 | 44 | 194 | 59.74 | 65.36 | 56.9 | 65.3 | 1.33 | 0.41 |
| 14 | 5 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 148 | 59.08 | 64.63 | 54.8 | 66.9 | 0.21 | 0.01 |
| 15 | 3 | 16 | - | 12 | 9 | 104 | 58.01 | 64.19 | 52.4 | 60.3 | 0.02 | 0.41 |
| 16 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 77 | 57.38 | 61.74 | 53.6 | 54.3 | 0.00 | 0.48 |
| 17 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 44 | 56.20 | 59.94 | 51.5 | 55.0 | 0.02 | 0.44 |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | - | 9 | 6 | 45 | 55.11 | 57.63 | 48.8 | 48.2 | 2.30 | 0.27 |
| 19 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 52.62 | 55.99 | 46.0 | 51.9 | 0.00 | 0.29 |
| 20 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 51.93 | 55.92 | 49.8 | 54.5 | 0.13 | 0.37 |
| 21 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 51.55 | 55.42 | 45.4 | 48.5 | 0.88 | 1.98 |
| 22 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 51.17 | 52.78 | 49.1 | 48.4 | 0.55 | 0.63 | |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 49.54 | 51.75 | 47.2 | 44.5 | 0.18 | 1.16 | |
| 24 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 49.31 | 50.15 | 43.3 | 49.0 | 0.17 | 1.70 | |
Correspondence of Weeks.
1912. 1911. 1912. 1911.
Week 1 June 8th. June 10th. Week 14 Sept. 7th. Sept 9th.
„ 5 July'6th. July 8th. „ 18 Oct. 5th. Oct. 7th.
„ 9 Aug. 3rd. Aug. 5th. „ 22 Nov. 2nd. Nov. 4th.
TABLE 38. "Diarrhœa"
| Ages. | Known Cases. | Deaths. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recovering. | Dying. | Total. | |||||||||||||||
| 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | 1912. | 1911. | ||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| Months. | 0—3 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 9 | - | 1 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 |
| 3—6 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 33 | 30 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 7 | |
| 6—9 | 13 | 13 | 31 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 33 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 4 | |
| 9—12 | 9 | 7 | 29 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 32 | 29 | - | - | 1 | 9 | |
| Under 1 year | 37 | 29 | 91 | 75 | 5 | 8 | 27 | 25 | 42 | 37 | 118 | 100 | 13 | 7 | 27 | 35 | |
| 1—2 years | 23 | 26 | 94 | 70 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 27 | 95 | 74 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 60 | 55 | 185 | 145 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 29 | 65 | 64 | 213 | 174 | 15 | 10 | 29 | 40 | ||
| 115 | 330 | 14 | 57 | 129 | 387 | 25 | 69 | ||||||||||