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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Disease. No. of Vinti.
Acute Rheumatism 13 (63)
Cerebrospinal Fever 8 (9)
Chickenpox 297 (232)
Diphtheria 40 (57)
Dysentery 29 (22)
Erysipelas 35 (36)
Lice 516 (473)
Malaria 3 (—)
Measles 1,449(1,432)
Pneumonia 69 (97)
Scabies 833 (1,263)
Scarlet Fever 234 (272)
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever 13 (9)
Whooping Cough 380 (405)
Visits to Schools 68 (80)
Miscellaneous 1,168 (1,266)
Typhus and smallpox cases are visited by the male Sanitary Inspectors, food poisoning or suspected food poisoning
by the Food Inspectors, puerperal fever, ophthalmia neonatorum and infective enteritis by the London County
Council's Health Visitors, and tuberculosis by the Nurses at the Chest Clinic.
tuberculosis.
The numbers of cases notified in previous years are shown in the following table :
| Year | Population | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total Cases | Incidence Rate (all forms) per 1,000 C. Pop. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 142,541 | 397 | No record | 397 pul. | 2-8 |
| 1921 | 145,600 | 244 | 91 | 335 | 2-3 |
| 1931 | 140,300 | 213 | 87 | 300 | 2-1 |
| 1939 | 135,300 | 189 | 32 | 221 | 1-6 |
| 1940 | 97,860 | 168 | 37 | 205 | 2-1 |
| 1941 | 77,640 | 184 | 26 | 210 | 2-7 |
| 1942 | 83,640 | 195 | 40 | 235 | 2-8 |
| 1943 | 90,580 | 229 | 28 | 257 | 2-8 |
| 1944 | 93,030 | 233 | 26 | 259 | 2-8 |
| 1945 | 99,790 | 224 | 21 | 245 | 2-5 |
| 1946 | 117,670 | 261 | 24 | 285 | 2-4 |
| 1947 | 127,450 | 273 | 22 | 295 | 2-3 |
| 1948 | 128,100 | 305 | 23 | 329 | 2-6 |
The ward distribution of the cases notified during 1948 is as follows :—
| Ward | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | |||||||
| Queens Park | 11 | (8) | 9 | (6) | - | (-) | 1 | (2) | 21 | (16) |
| Harrow Road | 27 | (23) | 22 | (17) | 2 | (2) | 3 | (1) | 54 | (43) |
| Maida Vale | 28 | (28) | 29 | (31) | - | (2) | 2 | (2) | 59 | (63) |
| Westbourne | 28 | (34) | 30 | (26) | 2 | (2) | 6 | (5) | 66 | (67) |
| Church | 18 | (13) | 12 | (18) | - | (-) | 1 | (1) | 31 | (32) |
| Town | 5 | (3) | 3 | (3) | - | (-) | - | (-) | 8 | (6) |
| Lancaster Gate, W. | 15 | (14) | 12 | - | (2) | 1 | (2) | 28 | (25) | |
| Lancaster Gate, E. | 13 | (8) | 8 | (8) | - | (1) | 2 | (-) | 23 | (17) |
| Hyde Park | 24 | (19) | 12 | (?) | 1 | (-) | 2 | (-) | 39 | (26) |
| Borough | 169 | (150) | 137 | (123) | 5 | (9) | 18 | (13) | 329 | (295) |