Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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MORTALITY IN CHILDHOOD.
TABLE 45. Diarrhœa. Distribution of Known Attacks and Deaths.
Week ending | Dates of Onset. | Dates of Death. | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1913. | All Cases. | 1913. | All Deaths. | |||||||||
Recovering. | Dying. # | Deaths. | 1913. | 1912. | 1911. | Cases Dying. | Deaths. | 1913. | 1912. | 1911. | ||
June | 7 | 6 | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | |
14 | 4 | 1 | – | 6 | 7 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
21 | 4 | – | 1 | 6 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 2 | |||
28 | 11 | 1 | – | 5 | 5 | – | – | 2 | 2 | |||
July | 5 | 8 | 1 | –_ | 3 | 7 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | |
12 | 5 | – | 1 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | |||
19 | 9 | 2 | – | 4 | 16 | 1 | – | – | – | |||
26 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 20 | – | – | – | – | 2 | ||
August | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 32 | – | 1 | 7 | 6 | ||
9 | 16 | – | 13 | 63 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 | ||||
16 | 16 | 2 | – | 4 | 64 | – | 1 | 3 | 16 | |||
23 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 58 | – | 1 | 1 | 17 | |||
30 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 15 | ||||
September | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | ||
13 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 1 | – | 12 | ||||
20 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 8 | ||||
27 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||
October | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 9 | ||
11 | 10 | – | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
18 | 5 | _ | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||
25 | 8 | 1 | – | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
November | 1 | 6 | 1 | – | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | ||||
15 | 3 | 1 | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | |||
22 | 5 | _ | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | |||
29 | 3 | – | – | Inquiry closed | – | 1 | Inquiry closed | |||||
December | 6 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | ||||||
13 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | |||||||
20 | 5 | – | – | 2 | 2 | |||||||
Before June | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | ||||||
After Decemeber | 20 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | |||||
No date recorded | 6 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 24 | 51 | – | – | – | |||
Totals | ||||||||||||
1912 | 115 | 14 | 25 | 154 | 14 | 25 | 39‡ | |||||
1911 | 330 | 57 | 69 | 456 | 57 | 69 | 126 |
* By "Dying" is meant "fatal cases known during life," and by "Deaths" those " known on registration
of death only."
† Including 8 deaths from causes other than diarrhoea. Hence difference in the corresponding column of
second half of the table.
‡ Excluding 5 deaths from diarrhoea in institutions, the disease not having been contracted in the Borough.