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Paddington 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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Table IV.
Mortality of the P arish of P addington during the Quarter ending September 29th
1866.
| I. ZYMOTIC. | Order 4—Organs of Digestion. | ||||||||||||||
| Order 1—Miasmatic. | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | Small-Pox | 2 | 1 | 5 | Hæmatemesis | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 4 | Measles | 4 | Cancrum Oris | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Scarlatina | 7 | 11 | Gastritis | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | Enteritis | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 1 | Angina | 1 | Peritonitis | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Croup | 3 | Ascites | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Whooping Cough | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 11 | Ulceration of Stomach Ulceration of Intestines | ||||||||
| Acute Rheumatism . | Hernia | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 2 | Icterus | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Metria (Puerperal Fever) | Abdomina Tumour | ||||||||||||||
| Anthrax | Abdominal Tumour | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Dysentery | 2 | 2 | 4 | Disease of Liver | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 | ||||||
| Duarrhœa | 2 | 61 | Order 5—Urinary Organs. | ||||||||||||
| Cholera | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Choleraic Diarrhœa | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Order 2—Enthetic. | Nephritis | ||||||||||||||
| Disease of Kidneys | 4 | 1 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Syphilis | 2 | Disease of Bladder | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Hydrophobia | Disease of Suprarenal Caps | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Order 3—Dietic. | Order 6—Uterus and Ovaries. | ||||||||||||||
| Privation | |||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast Milk | Ovarian Dropsy | ||||||||||||||
| Purpura | Other Diseases | ||||||||||||||
| Alcoholism:— | |||||||||||||||
| Order 7—Organs of Locomotion | |||||||||||||||
| Lead Poisoning | Disease of Joints | ||||||||||||||
| Order 4—Parasitic. | Disease of Bones | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Thrush | 1 | Order 8—Integument | ||||||||||||
| II. CONSTITUTIONAL | |||||||||||||||
| Phlegmon | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Order 1—Diathetic. | Cutaneous Diseases | ||||||||||||||
| Gout | |||||||||||||||
| Dropsy | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Cancer | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | IV. DEVELOPMENTAL. Order l—Of Children | ||||||||||
| Order 2 -TUBERCULAR. | |||||||||||||||
| Cachexia | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Scrofula | 1 | 1 | Malformation of the Heart | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Tabes Mesenterica | 6 | 1 | other Malformations | 1 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Consumption | 17 | 15 | 1 | 42 | 1 | Teething | ||||||||
| 17 | Hydrocephalus | 19 | |||||||||||||
| III. LOCAL. | Order 2—Of Adults. Childbirth | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Ord.1-Nervous System Inflammation of Brain . | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | Order 3—Of Old people | ||||||||
| Apoplexy | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | Old Age | 4 | 5 | 9 | |||||||
| Paralysis | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Insanity | 1 | Order 4—Diseases of | |||||||||||||
| Epilepsy | 17 | ||||||||||||||
| 15 | Convulsions | 2 | Nutrition. | ||||||||||||
| Tetanus | 1 | 20 | Atrophy | 11 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Exhaustion | |||||||||||||
| Order 2—Organs of Circulation. | V. VIOLENT DEATHS. Order 1—Accidents and negligence. | ||||||||||||||
| Paricarditis | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Aneurism | Fractures & Contusions Chloroform | ||||||||||||||
| Disease of Heart | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||
| Order 3—Organs of Respiration. | Burns and Scolds | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Drowning | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Suffocation | |||||||||||||||
| Laryngitis | 1 | 1 | Order 2.—Homicide. | ||||||||||||
| Laryngismus | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Bronchitis | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 17 | Infanticide | ||||||||
| 1 | Pleurisy | 1 | 1 | 3 | Suicide | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 12 | Pneumonia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | No specified Cause | |||||||||
| other diseases | |||||||||||||||
| 147 | Carried forward | 27 | 33 | 43 | 33 | 8 | 291 | 191 | TOTALS | 31 | 52 | 62 | 49 | 14 | 399 |