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Paddington 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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THE PREVALENCE OF DISEASE.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable under certain conditions in Paddington :
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica. Glanders.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. Hydrophobia.
Acute Polio-encephalitis. Infective Enteritis or Summer Diarrhoea.
Acute Polio-myelitis. Malaria.
Acute Primary Pneumonia. Measles.
Acute Rheumatism. Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Anthrax. Plague.
Cerebro-spinal Fever. Puerperal Fever.
Chicken-pox. Puerperal Pyrexia.
Cholera. Relapsing Fever.
Continued Fever. Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria or Membranous Croup. Small-pox.
Dysentery. Tuberculosis.
Erysipelas. Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
German Measles. Typhus Fever.
The following table summarises the cases of notifiable diseases notified in the years 1918
to 1928:-
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(a) First Year of Notification.
The following table furnishes an analysis of some of the notifiable diseases according to
age, sex and ward of the Borough:—
1928.
Notifications.
A.—Ward Distribution.
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B. —Sex—Age Distribution. Borough.
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