[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington] page 17

Paddington 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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THE PREVALENCE OF DISEASE.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in Paddington:—
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica. Glanders.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. Hydrophobia.
Acute Polio-encephalitis. Malaria.
Acute Polio-myelitis. Measles.
Acute Primary Pneumonia. Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Anthrax. Plague.
Cerebro-spinal Fever. Puerperal Fever.
Chicken-pox. Relapsing Fever.
Cholera. Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Continued Fever. Small-pox.
Diphtheria and Membranous'Croup. Trench Fever.
Dysentery. Tuberculosis.
Erysipelas. Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
German Measles. Typhus Fever.
The following table summarises the numbers of notifiable diseases notified in the years 1916
to 1925:—

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

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Analysis of Notification Certificates (Uncorrected for Errors).

	1916.	1917.	1918.	1919.	1920.	1921.	1922.	1923.	1924.	1925.
Anthrax	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-
Cerebro-spinal Fever	9	7	3	7	1	2	2	1	1	5
Chicken-pox	—	—	207	—	—	—	22	465	395	459
Continued Fever	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-	-	-
Diphtheria	209	227	254	255	461	442	401	219	278	336
Dysentery	—	—	—	(a) 3	1	2	—	2	1	-
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica	—	—	—	(a) 3	2	7	2	3	12	7
Typhoid Fever	23	12	13	10	19	13	8	13	15	18
Erysipelas	105	66	56	76	81	83	77	54	69	64
Malaria	—	—	—	(a) 64	24	7	5	2	9	1
Measles	546	2,701	11,004	1,258	1,427	163	2,117	372	3,215	1,254
Membranous Croup	2	2	4	4	3	3	-	1	2	1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	20	27	22	30	29	34	15	22	18	23
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia	—	—	—	(a)87	45	27	72	33	87	88
,, Primary Pneumonia	—	—	—	(a)83	96	105	254	302	369	265
,, Polio-encephalitis	4	1	—	5	2	1	—	2	4	3
,, Polio-myelitis
Puerperal Fever	8	7	2	15	15	16	8	5	9	15
Scarlet Fever	272	124	150	261	502	827	529	323	290	264
Small-pox	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	-	-
Tuberculosis—Total	526	502	451	391	383	335	312	338	379	400
Pulmonary	388	355	325	284	277	244	204	222	242	231
Other Forms	138	147	126	107	106	91	108	116	137	169

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(a) First Year of Notification.
The following tables furnish an analysis of some of the notifiable diseases according to age, sex
and ward of the Borough, in the years 1924 and 1925:—

Table: 1924. Notifications.

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1924. Notifications.

	Queen's Park.		Harrow Road.		Maida Vale.		West-bourne.		Church.		Lancaster Gate.				Hyde Park.
	Queen's Park.		Harrow Road.		Maida Vale.		West-bourne.		Church.		West.		East.		Hyde Park.
	A.—Ward Distributio n.
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.
Diphtheria and Memb. Croup	27	20	32	34	17	13	25	27	30	32	7	4	2	2	2	6
Typhoid Fever	—	—	—	2	—	1	3	—	1	3	1	3	-	-	-	1
Erysipelas	6	3	6	8	4	4	7	9	6	7	1	-	-	2	2	4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	—	1	3	2	2	2	1	—	3	3	-	1	-	-	-	-
Pneumonia—A. Influenzal	6	8	8	8	7	8	9	8	6	12	-	2	-	1	2	2
,, A. Primary	28	13	41	23	30	22	41	27	50	62	1	7	2	3	9	10
Puerperal Fever	—	1	—	1	—	2	—	2	—	1	—	2	-	-	-	-
Scarlet Fever	17	11	42	45	31	15	24	24	22	23	2	7	4	5	6	12

Table: B.—Sex-Age Distribution: Borough.

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B.—Sex-Age Distribution: Borough.

	0—		1—		5—		15—		25—		35—		45—		55—		65—
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.
Diphtheria and Memb. Croup	5	1	59	40	55	49.	15	35	6	7	2	4	—	2	-	-	-	-
Typhoid Fever	—	—	—	3	—	—	1	3	2	2	—	2	2	—	—	—	-	-
Erysipelas	2	1	4	2	5	3	1	4	3	4	5	7	3	5	6	4	3	7
Pneumonia—A. Influenzal	2	2	9	8	2	1	4	6	5	4	6	8	5	8	3	8	2	4
,, A. Primary	34	27	50	63	27	14	13	6	14	14	18	13	18	11	13	8	15	11
Scarlet Fever	—	1	43	36	92	73	7	22	3	6	3	2	—	1	—	1	-	-

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

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Table: 1924. Notifications.

Table: B.—Sex-Age Distribution: Borough.