Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE II.
Mortality per 10,000 of the Population, of Children under Five Years.
first quarter.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
Standard
Mortality of
Infants
in
Healthy Districts.
Mortality of Infants in Paddington.
I.
In houses
inhabited by the
Poor.
II.
In the rest
of
the Parish.
Small Pox
0.21
0.4
0.1
Measles
0.47
4 • 4
1 • 0
Scarlatina
1 • 01
0.8
0.4
Diptheria
—
0.0
0.1
Whooping Cough
0.57
6.7
1.3
Alvine Flux
0 • 15
0 • 4
0.4
Respiratory Diseases
0.92
8.0
2.5
Nervous Diseases
0.73
4.9
1 . 8
All causes
11.59
41.7
13 • 5
SECOND QUARTER.
Small Pox
0.51
0.9
0.0
Measles
0.47
1.3
0.1
Scarlatina
1.01
0. 9
0.2
Diphtheria
—
00
0. 1
Whooping Cough
0.57
0.4
0.5
Alvine Flux
0.15
13.8
3.9
Respiratory Diseases
0.92
4.9
1.5
Nervous Diseases
0 • 73
5.8
2.6
All causes
11 • 59
40.1
12.9
THIRD QUARTER.
Small Pox
0.21
08
0. 2
Measles
0.47
1.7
0.0
Scarlatina
1.01
3.1
1 • 4
Diphtheria
-
1 3
0.3
Whooping Cough
0.57
1 3
0.2
Alvine Flux
0.15
35
0.9
Respiratory Diseases
0 • 92
8.4
2.4
Nervous
0.73
8.4
1.7
All causes
11 • 59
43.0
8.5
FOURTH QUARTER.
Small Pox
0.21
0.4
0.1
Measles
0 • 47
0.0
0.1
Scarlatina
0.01
1 .3
1 4
Diphtheria
-_
0.8
0.2
Whooping Cough
0.57
0 . 15
5. 5
0 . 0
0.9
0. 2
Respiratory Diseases
0 • 92
11 .5
3.7
Nervous Diseases
0.73
8.9
3.5
All causes
11 .59
46.7
13.5