[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of] page 15

Paddington 1932

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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15
THE PREVALENCE OF DISEASE.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable under certain conditions in Paddington :
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Acute Polio-encephalitis.
Acute Polio-myelitis.
Acute Primary Pneumonia.
Acute Rheumatism.
Anthrax.
Cerebro-spinal Fever.
Chicken-pox.
Cholera.
Continued Fever.
Diphtheria or Membranous Croup.
Dysentery.
Erysipelas.
Food Poisoning.
German Measles.
Glanders.
Hydrophobia.
Infective Enteritis or Summer Diarrhoea.
Malaria.
Measles.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Plague.
Puerperal Fever.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Relapsing Fever.
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Smallpox.
Tuberculosis.
Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
Typhus Fever.
The following table summarises the cases of notifiable diseases notified in the years 1922
to 1932

Table: Analysis of Notification Certificates.(Uncorrected for Errors in Diagnosis).

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Analysis of Notification Certificates.

(Uncorrected for Errors in Diagnosis).

	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica	2	3	12	7	4	4	1	5	1	-	-
„ Influenzal Pneumonia	72	33	87	88	76	107	59	135	40	97	66
„ Primary Pneumonia	254	302	369	265	184	183	202	247	168	243	184
„ Polio-encephalitis	-	2	4	3	3	1	1	1	-	I	1
„ Polio-myelitis	-	2	4	3	3	4	3	1	1	2	2
. „ Rheumatism	-	-	-	-	-	(a) 34	76	52	43	37	21
Anthrax	1	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	1	-
Cerebro-spinal Fever	2	1	1	5	5	3	4	6	3	5	9
Chicken-pox	22	465	395	459	599	461	567	382	515	555	291
Continued Fever	-	-	-	-	-	2	10	3	2	4	-
Diphtheria	401	219	278	336	462	367	302	311	366	254	194
Dysentery	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	5
Erysipelas	77	64	69	64	76	90	90	69	74	67	60
Food Poisoning	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	(a)11
German Measles	144	48	458	375	124	78	109	1163	86	58	77
Infective Enteritis or Summer Diarrhœa	-	-	-	-	-	(a) 6	20	63	30	40	103
Malaria	5	2	9	1	1	2	3	-	1	-	1
Measles	1973	324	2757	879	1738	154	2862	210	1790	541	1414
Membranous Croup	-	1	2	1	1	2	4	6	7	6	6
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	15	22	18	23	16	15	24	9	15	18	22
Puerperal Fever	8	5	9	15	14	7	5	4	5	8	7
„ ,, Pyrexia	-	-	-	-	(a) 17	34	32	42	37	32	31
Scarlet Fever	529	323	290	264	199	320	519	323	356	379	286
Smallpox	-	1	-	-	-	-	5	3	3	-	2
Tuberculosis—Total	312	338	379	400	356	381	321	335	284	311	289
Pulmonary	204	222	242	231	218	212	196	242	196	218	213
Other Forms	108	116	137	169	138	169	125	93	88	93	76
Typhoid or Enteric Fever	8	13	15	18	12	16	25	19	10	9	4

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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:—

Table: 1932.NOTIFICATIONS.A.—Ward Distribution.

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1932.

NOTIFICATIONS.

A.—Ward Distribution.

	Queen's Park.		Harrow Road.		Maida Vale.		Town.		Churcb.		West-bourne .		Lancaster Gate.				Hyde Park.
	Queen's Park.		Harrow Road.		Maida Vale.		Town.		Churcb.		West-bourne .		West.		East.		Hyde Park.
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.
Diphtheria Memb. Croup	9	12	15	14	5	8	3	11	23	24	24	35	1	5	•-	3	3	5
Typhoid and Continued Fever	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	1
Erysipelas	1	3	5	8	-	4	-	3	4	8	5	8	1	1	-	2	3	4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	2	-	-	3	2	2	1	1	2	2	4	2	1	-	-	-	-	-
Pneumonia–A. Influenzal	1	4	3	8	3	11	2	6	8	3	5	4	1	2	-	1	1	3
A. Primary	8	7	19	11	15	8	9	3	23	19	26	24	2	2	-	1	3	4
Puerperal Fever	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-_	-_	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	2
„ Pyrexia	-	1	-	8	-	3	-	-	-	9	-	6	-	-	-	1	-	3
Scarlet Fever	11	12	41	31	17	22	6	4	9	17	19	41	10	10	6	11	8	11

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Table: Analysis of Notification Certificates.(Uncorrected for Errors in Diagnosis).

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Table: 1932.NOTIFICATIONS.A.—Ward Distribution.