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Paddington 1913
[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.