[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of] page 14

Paddington 1933

[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.
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 or Suspected Food Poisoning.
Glanders.
Hydrophobia.
Infective Enteritis or Summer Diarrhoea.
Malaria.
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 1923 to
1933

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

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Analysis of Notification Certificates.

(Uncorrected for Errors in Diagnosis.)

	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica	3	12	7	4	4	1	6	1	—	—	—
,, Influenzal Pneumonia	33	87	88	76	107	59	135	40	97	66	102
,, Primary Pneumonia	302	369	265	184	183	202	247	168	243	184	157
,, Polio-encephalitis	2	4	3	3	1	1	1	—	1	1	—
,, Polio-myelitis	2	4	3	3	4	3	1	1	2	2	3
,, Rheumatism	—	—	—		(a)34	76	52	43	37	21	37
Anthrax	_	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	—	—
Cerebro-spinal Fever	1	1	5	5	3	4	6	3	5	9	6
Chicken-pox	465	395	459	599	461	567	382	515	555	291	364
Continued Fever	_	_	—	—	2	10	3	2	4	—	1
Diphtheria	219	278	336	462	367	302	311	366	254	194	277
Dysentery	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	5	1
Erysipelas	54	69	64	76	90	90	69	74	67	60	66
Food Poisoning	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	(a)11	17
German Measles	48	458	375	124	78	109	1163	86	58	77	(b)11
Infective Enteritis or Summer Diarrhoea	—	—	—	—	(a) 6	20	63	30	40	103	67
Malaria	2	9	1	1	2	3	—	1	—	1	1
Measles	324	2757	879	1738	154	2862	210	1790	541	1414	(b)103
Membranous Croup	1	2	1	1	2	4	6	7	6	6	—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	22	18	23	16	15	24	9	15	18	22	21
Puerperal Fever	5	9	15	14	7	5	4	5	8	7	12
,, Pyrexia	—	—	—	(a)17	34	32	42	37	32	31	53
Scarlet Fever	323	290	264	199	320	519	323	356	379	286	396
Smallpox	1	—	—	—	—	5	3	3	—	2	1
Tuberculosis—Total	338	379	400	356	381	321	335	284	311	289	270
Pulmonary	222	242	231	218	212	196	242	196	218	213	203
Other Forms	116	137	169	138	169	125	93	88	93	76	67
Typhoid or Enterio Fever	13	15	18	12	16	25	19	10	9	4	6

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(а) First Year of Notification.
(b) Not notifiable after 19th March, 1933.
The following table furnishes an analysis of some of the notifiable diseases according to age, sex
and ward of the Borough:—
1933.

Table: NOTIFICATIONS. A.—Ward Distribution.

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NOTIFICATIONS.

A.—Ward Distribution.

	Queen's Park.		Harrow Road.		Maida Vale.		Town.		Church.		Westbourne.		Lancaster Gate.				Hyde Park.
	Queen's Park.		Harrow Road.		Maida Vale.		Town.		Church.		Westbourne.		West.		East.		Hyde Park.
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.
Diphtheria and Memb. Croup	10	19	31	23	13	24	8	5	27	31	30	32	1	—	4	4	9	6
Typhoid and Continued Fever	2	—	1	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	—	1	—	1	—	—	—	—
Erysipelas	3	2	5	12	4	5	3	1	3	6	4	9	—	6	—	2	—	1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	—	—	—	2	—	4	1	—	3	I	1	2	1	I	—	—	1	4
Pneumonia—A. Influenzal	4	8	3	6	8	21	7	4	8	6	9	4	1	4	—	4	—	5
,, A. Primary	2	1	12	16	7	7	6	2	35	21	22	16	3	1	1	1	4	—
Puerperal Fever	—	1	—	5	—	—	—	1	—	4	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—
,, Pyrexia	—	2	—	12	—	7	—	4	—	8	—	13	—	1	—	4	—	2
Scarlet Fever	25	22	38	58	28	25	10	15	25	39	29	42	4	6	3	3	7	17

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

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Table: NOTIFICATIONS. A.—Ward Distribution.