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Paddington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SICKNESS.
could be made. Material has been collected in the Department from which it is hoped, in a
future report, to submit properly standardised morbidity rates for the districts whose statistics
are dealt with in these reports. The maximum and minimum rates recorded last year are set
out on the opposite page.
TABLE 17.
Notifications.
Paddington.
| Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Erysipelas. | Fever. | Cerebrospinal Meningitis. | Acute Poliomyelitis. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet. | Enteric. | Continued. | Puerperal. | |||||||
| Cases— | ||||||||||
| 1913 | 293 | 3 | 112 | 484 | 25 | — | 8 | — | 2 | 22 |
| 1912 | 244 | 4 | 117 | 272 | 15 | — | 11 | 7 | 6 | 31 |
| Morbidity Rates*— | ||||||||||
| 1913 | 203 | 0.02 | 0.76 | 3.34 | 0.17 | — | 2.80 | — | 0.01 | 7.76 |
| 1912 | 1.71 | 0.03 | 0.82 | 1.91 | 0.10 | — | 3.96 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 11.17 |
| 1908.12 | 1.17 | 0.02 | 0.76 | 2.89 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 2.50 | |||
* Per 1,000 persons of all ages, except for puerperal fever and ophthalmia neonatorum, per 1,000 births
(corrected).
TABLE 18.
Morbidity Rates.
| Disease. | London. | Paddington. | Kensington. | Westminster. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913. | 1912. | 1908-12. | 1913. | 1912. | 1908-12. | 1913. | 1912. | 1908-12. | 1913. | 1912. | 1908-12. | ||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.00 | |
| Diphtheria | 1.60 | 1.57 | 1.71 | 2.09 | 1.78 | 1.22 | 0.83 | 1.05 | 1.12 | 1.22 | 1.02 | 1.06 | |
| Erysipelas | 0 88 | 0.91 | 1.14 | 0.76 | 0.82 | 0.76 | 0.64 | 0.67 | 0.75 | 0.47 | 0.58 | 0.51 | |
| Fevers. | Scarlet | 3.82 | 2.60 | 4.29 | 3.36 | 1.89 | 2.88 | 3.20 | 1.77 | 1.90 | 2.40 | 1.51 | 2.38 |
| Enteric | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.17 | 0.10 | 0.21 | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.19 | |
| Puerperal | 3.08 | 3.42 | 3.00 | 2.61 | 3.96 | 2.50 | 3.87 | 2.60 | 2.74 | 2.69 | 8.91 | 3.70 | |
| Cerebro-spinal | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.26 | — | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.01 | — | 0.01 | — | 0.02 | 0.01 | |
| A. Poliomyelitis | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.04 | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonat | 5 68 | 6.27 | 7.20 | 11.17 | 5.06 | 7.14 | 7.18 | 6.09 | |||||
| Disease. | St. Marylebone. | Hampstead. | Willesden. | ||||||||||
| 1913. | 1912. | 1908-12. | 1913. | 1912. | 1908-12. | 1913. | 1912. | 1908-12. | |||||
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.01 | 0.00 | ||||
| Diphtheria | 1.11 | 1.28 | 1.07 | 1.45 | 1.88 | 1.22 | 1.41 | 1.40 | 1.32 | ||||
| Erysipelas | 0.67 | 0.77 | 0.90 | 0.37 | 0.51 | 0.44 | 0.57 | 0.61 | 0.61 | ||||
| Fevers. | Scarlet | 3.57 | 2.23 | 2.77 | 2.36 | 1.26 | 2.15 | 2.98 | 2.69 | 3.26 | |||
| Enteric | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.12 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.17 | ||||
| Puerperal | 1.79 | 2.23 | 1.95 | 0.75 | 2.45 | 3.47 | 2.72 | 2.55 | 2.71 | ||||
| Cerebro-spinal | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | — | 0.01 | 0.02 | — | — | |||||
| A. Poliomyelitis | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.02 | — | — | |||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonat | 4.03 | 8.45 | 8.29 | 4.08 | |||||||||
Rates calculated per 1,000 persons of all ages, except in the cases of puerperal fever and
ophthalmia neonatorum, per 1,000 births (corrected).