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Paddington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SEPTIC DISEASES.
Mortality in Childbed : Total Per 1,000 births registered.
| Queen's Park. | Harrow Koad. | Maida Vale. | West-bourne. | Church. | Lancaster West. | Gate, East. | Hyde Park. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | — | 5.31 | — | 8.86 | 1.31 | 16.12 | _ | — |
| 1912 | 5.01 | 2.86 | 2.28 | 2.10 | 1.46 | 15.62 | 31.25 | — |
TABLE 31.
Mortality in Childbed.
| London. | Paddington. | Kensington. | Westminster. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913. | 1912. | 1913. | 1912. | 1913. | 1912. | 1913. | 1912. | |||||
| Puerperal Fever— | ||||||||||||
| Morbidity | 3.09 | 3.41 | 2.82 | 3.96 | 4.08 | 2.59 | 3.01 | 8.91 | ||||
| Fatality | 39.82 | 41.73 | 27.5 | 36.36 | 38.46 | 75.00 | 33.33 | 31.57 | ||||
| Mortality | 123 | 1.42 | 1.05 | 1.44 | 1.57 | 1.94 | 1.00 | 2.81 | ||||
| Accidents and Diseases of Parturition— | ||||||||||||
| Mortality | 1.3 | 1.57 | 2.7 | 2.16 | 1.7 | 2.92 | 3.01 | 1.87 | ||||
| Total Mortality in Childbed | 2.6 | 3.00 | 3.2 | 3.60 | 3.4 | 4.87 | 4.02 | 4.69 | ||||
| St. Marylebone. | Hampstead. | Willesden. | ||||||||||
| 1913. | 1912. | 1913. | 1912. | 1913. | 1912. | |||||||
| Puerperal Fever— | ||||||||||||
| Morbidity | 1.80 | 2.22 | 0.79 | 2.45 | 2.75 | 2.55 | ||||||
| Fatality | 50.00 | 40.00 | 200. 00 | 66.66 | 18.18 | 30.00 | ||||||
| Mortality | 0.90 | 0.88 | 1.58 | 1.63 | 0.50 | 0.76 | ||||||
| Accidents and Diseases of Parturition— | ||||||||||||
| Mortality | 4.50 | 4.89 | 1.58 | 3.26 | 1.75 | 2.29 | ||||||
| Total Mortality in Childbed | 5.40 | 5.78 | 3.17 | 4.89 | 2.25 | 3.06 | ||||||
All rates per 1,000 births registered, except "Fatality," per 100 cases notified.
Erysipelas.—The notified cases numbered 112 last year (Table 17), the morbidity rate
being 0 76 per 1,000 persons, as compared with one of 0'82 in 1912, and an average (1908.12; of
0*76. The rate recorded in the Borough was the highest of the series included in Table 18, the
lowest rate (0'37) being that of Hampstead. In all the districts except Paddington last year's
rates were below the averages. The greatest increase in the number recorded in 1913 above
that recorded in the previous year occurred in Maida Vale Ward. (Table 20.)
The notified cases comprised 50 in males and 62 in females. In 9 instances only (5 in
males and 4 in females) did the inquiries made elicit any history of an open wound as the seat of
infection. In 5 instances the part of the body affected was not recorded, the remaining 107
attacks being distributed as follows :—
Head, neck, 79 Males, 37 (3) Females, 42 (1)
Arm, hand, 8 ,, 3 (1) „ 5 (2)
Trunk, 1 „ — „ 1
Leg, foot, 19 „ 8 (1) 11 (1)
Note.—The figures in parentheses indicate the numbers of cases in which a history of a wound was obtained.