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Paddington 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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CLASSIFICATION OF DEATH
| All Ages | Under 1 year of age | |||||||||
| M | F | Total | M | F | Total | |||||
| 754 | 854 | 66 | 40 | 106 | ||||||
| Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fevers | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Measles | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | -_ | ||||
| Whooping Cough | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Diphtheria | 5 | 2 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Influenza | 12 | 14 | 26 | - | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Encephaliti s lethargica | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | — | - | ||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | |||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 48 | 35 | 83 | - | - | - | ||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 6 | 12 | - | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Syphilis | 3 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | ||||
| General Paralysis of the Insane | 3 | 2 | .5 | - | - | - | ||||
| Cancer, Malignant Disease | 104 | 163 | 267 | - | - | - | ||||
| Diabetes | 8 | 12 | 20 | - | - | - | ||||
| Cerebral Haemorrhage, etc. | 20 | 25 | 45 | - | - | - | ||||
| Heart Disease | 191 | 245 | 436 | - | - | - | ||||
| Aneurysm | 6 | 10 | - | - | - | |||||
| Other Circulatory Diseases | 50 | 57 | 107 | - | - | - | ||||
| Bronchitis | 22 | 48 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Pneumonia (oil forms) | 48 | 51 | 99 | 8 | 4 | 12 | ||||
| Other Respiratory diseases | 7 | 8 | 15 | 1 | - | 1 | ||||
| Peptic Ulcer | 14 | 4 | 18 | - | - | - | ||||
| Diarrhoea | 14 | 11 | 25 | 11 | 8 | 19 | ||||
| Appendicitis | 6 | 3 | 9 | - | - | - | ||||
| Cirrhosis of Liver | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | |||||
| Other Diseases of Liver, etc | 4 | 5 | 9 | - | - | - | ||||
| Other Digestive Diseases | 14 | 16 | 30 | 1 | - | 1 | ||||
| Acute and Chronic Nephritis | 14 | 25 | - | - | - | |||||
| Puer peral Sepsis | - | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | ||||
| - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | |||||
| Cons???tal Debility, Premature | ||||||||||
| Birth, Malformations( etc. | 29 | 18 | 47 | 29 | 18 | 47 | ||||
| Sanility | 3 | 19 | 22 | - | - | - | ||||
| 18 | 10 | 28 | - | - | - | |||||
| Other Violence | 29 | 38 | 67 | 4 | 3 | |||||
| Other defined dispases | 70 | 49 | 119 | 8 | 1 | |||||
| Causes ill-defined or unknown | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | ||||
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
| Disease | Total Cases Notified | Cases Admitted to Hospital | Total Deaths |
| Acute Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 | - |
| ” Influenzal Pneumonia | 34 | 12 | |
| ” Primary Pneumonia | |||
| ” Polio-encephalitis | - | - | - |
| ” Polio-myelitis | 3 | 3 | - |
| ” Rheumatism | 15 | 1 | |
| Anthrax | - | - | - |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | |||
| Chicken-pox | 24 | - | |
| Continued fever | 1 | - | - |
*Not notifiable after 25th April 1939
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