[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of] page 4

Paddington 1945

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

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CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS.	All Ages.			Under One Year of Age.
CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS.	M	F	Total	M	F	Total
All Causes.	638	729	1367	49	55	104
Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers	—	—	—	—	—	—
Cerebro-spinal fever	1	1	2	—	—	—
Scarlet fever	—	—	—	—	—	—
Whooping cough	1	—	1	1	—	1
Diphtheria	—	2	2	—	—	—
Pulmonary tuberculosis	36	23	59	—	—	—
Other tuberculous diseases	6	3	9	—	—	—
Syphilitic diseases	6	7	13	1	—	1
Influenza	—	2	2	—	—	—
Measles	—	4	4	—	—	—
Acute polio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis	—	—	—	—	—	—
Acute infectious encephalitis	—	1	1	—	—	—
Cancer of buccal cavity and cesophagus (males)	9	—	9	—	—	—
Cancer of uterus	1	16	16	—	—	—
Cancer of stomach and duodenum	20	11	31	—	—	—
Cancer of breast	—	22	22	—	—	—
Cancer of all other sites	71	54	125	—	—	—
Diabetes	—	4	4	—	—	—
Intra-cranial vascular lesions	41	83	124	—	—	—
Heart disease	115	169	284	—	—	—
Other circulatory diseases	36	47	83	—	—	—
Bronchitis	52	34	86	1	—	1
Pneumonia	49	46	95	8	7	15
Other respiratory diseases	10	9	19	1	—	1
Ulcer of stomach or duodenum	14	4	18	—	—	—
Diarrhœa (under 2 years)	3	10	13	3	10	13
Appendicitis	4	—	4	—	—	—
Other digestive diseases	14	13	27	—	—	—
Nephritis	12	13	25	—	—	—
Puerperal sepsis	—	4	4	—	—	—
Other maternal causes	—	3	3	—	—	—
Premature birth	12	23	35	12	23	35
Congenital malformation, birth injury, infantile disease	19	14	33	17	12	29
Suicide	7	13	20	—	—	—
Road traffic accidents	12	6	18	—	—	—
Other violent causes	28	30	58	3	3	6
All other causes	60	58	118	2	—	2

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notification of infectious disease.—

Disease.	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945
Acute Encephalitis lethargica	1	1	1	—	—	—	—
„ Influenzal pneumonia	34	22	8	11	29	11	9
,, Primary pneumonia	106	80	68	96	53	47	88
,, Polio-encephalitis	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
„ Polio-myelitis	3	1	3	1	1	2	1
„ Rheumatism	18	9	6	2	5	6	—
Cerebro-spinal fever	11	24	19	11	9	7	9
Continued fever	1	3	1	— .	—	—	—
Diphtheria	86	42	58	38	54	50	51
Dysentry	5	3	12	35	94	38	86
Erysipelas	44	43	29	28	29	33	31
Food poisoning or suspected food poisoning	8	6	4	6	10	3	4
Infective enteritis or summer diarrhoea	47	24	13	27	84	107	154
Malaria	—	4	—	3	—	5	2
Measles	28	253	301	707	592	174	1,046
Membranous Croup	—	—	—	—	—	1	—
Ophthalmia neonatorum	10	20	6	6	8	13	11
Puerperal fever	17	23	6	5	3	8	25
Puerperal pyrexia	37	17	25	38	23	24	37
Scabies (notifiable from 1st August, 1943)	—	—	—	—	246	644	804
Scarlet fever	130	56	61	110	312	137	126
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	—	1	~~
Typhoid or enteric fever	1	5	9	1	3	—	2
Whooping cough	239	24	170	235	142	156	54