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Paddington 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The Department receives information (on "Form 84") from the teachers of the public
elementary schools of cases of chickenpox, mumps, ringworm, "blight," "sore throat," &c., and
weekly returns are prepared of the cases of the first three. Most of these diseases will be
dealt with under "School Attendance," but the results of the weekly tabulations may be briefly
referred to here.
Chickenpox.— Five hundred and forty cases were included in the weekly returns last year,
as compared with 608 in 1913. The corrected total was 555 cases in 337 houses, as compared
with 599 cases in 376 houses in 1913. The disease was most prevalent in the first and
second quarters of the year.
Mumps.— The cases (uncorrected) numbered 247 last year. In 1913, 203 cases were reported,
and in 1912, 341.
Ringworm.— The number of reported cases last year was 198, as compared with 148 in 1913
and 267 in 1912.
Borough
(according to weekly tabulation).
| Quarters. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | Year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chickenpox | 1909 | 100 | 73 | 43 | 128 | 344 |
| 1910 | 220 | 103 | 55 | 140 | 520 | |
| 1911 | 129 | 147 | 100 | 131 | 507 | |
| 1912 | 192 | 135 | 52 | 90 | 469 | |
| 1913 | 74 | 217 | 99 | 218 | 608 | |
| Mumps | 1909 | 211 | 114 | 30 | 65 | 420 |
| 1910 | 31 | 23 | 3 | 12 | 69 | |
| 1911 | 40 | 39 | 10 | 134 | 223 | |
| 1912 | 159 | 71 | 39 | 72 | 341 | |
| 1913 | 97 | 59 | 24 | 23 | 203 | |
| Ringworm | 1909 | 45 | 49 | 40 | 42 | 176 |
| 1910 | 41 | 24 | 13 | 24 | 102 | |
| 1911 | 37 | 43 | 31 | 54 | 165 | |
| 1912 | 69 | 71 | 45 | 82 | 267 | |
| 1913 | 46 | 48 | 24 | 30 | 148 | |
TUBERCULOSIS.
Notification.
During the past year, 1,379 certificates were received, 239 of which had to be transferred to
the medical officers of health of other districts in which the patients resided, so that the total
number belonging to the Borough was 1,140. In 1913 the nett number of certificates was 1,311,
and in 1912, 1,362.
The notifications relating to patients who had not been previously reported numbered 545,
comprising 396* of pulmonary tuberculosis and 149 of other forms of the disease. In 1913 the
number of new cases notified was 836. The sources from which last year's notifications were
received are set out in Table 23.
* Fourteen of these cases, however, were already known to the Department as "Suspects."