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Paddington 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SICKNESS.
Table 5 has been constructed from the numbers of cases reported in the Quarterly Reports
of the Registrar-General, such data being selected to secure uniformity in comparisons. It will
be seen that in all districts the rates for scarlet fever were much above those for the preceding
year and the five-yearly averages.
| Maximum | Minimum | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (per 1,000 persons, all ages). | ||||
In the Charts facing this page are shown the annual morbidity rates based on the numbers
of cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria reported each week in the Borough and in the County.
The dotted lines represent the averages for the ten years 1904-13.
Table 6 has been compiled from the Annual Report of Statistics of Notification issued by
the Local Government Board. The continued excessive prevalence of scarlet fever will be
noted.
TABLE 6.
| In Extra-Metropolitan England and Wales. | At Ports. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases Reported. | Morbidity Rates. | Cases Reported. | |||||||
| 1914. | 1913. | 1912. | 1914. | 1913. | 1912. | 1914. | 1913. | 1912. | |
| 0.00 | |||||||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — | — | ||||
| 0.22 | |||||||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||||
| 1,801 | — | — | |||||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||||
| 0.01 | — | ||||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||