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Paddington 1867

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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The Mortality of young children is a delicate
test of the Sanitary state of any community. The
healthiest districts of England show a Mortality of
33 per 1000, or less than 3½ per cent. of the
population living under 5 years of age—whilst
others, including the most unhealthy, give a
Mortality of 100 to 130 per 1000 deaths of children
under 5 years of age, or 10 to 13 per cent.
It will be seen that diseases of the lungs and brain,
including scrofula, tabes, hydrocephalus, phthisis
and other tubercular forms of disease in young
children, contribute much to the mortality of the
Parish of Paddington.

Table: TABLE II.The following Table shows the Annual, Quarterly, and Comparative Mortality from Zymotic Diseases :—

TABLE II.

The following Table shows the Annual, Quarterly, and Comparative Mortality from Zymotic Diseases :—

Causes of Death.April, May, June.July, August, Septem.October, Novem. Decern.January, February March.In the Year.ComparativeMortality in 1,000 population.
In England.In Paddington.
Small-Pox112–4.22.04
Measles97411976.41.78
Scarlatina679931.8731
Diphtheria153716.10.16
Croup and Quinsy
Whooping Cough1512272882.50.84
Typhus, Typhoid, &c.1091415511.82.52
Pyaemia, Erysipelas963226.26
Diarrhoea13618385 2.17.90
Cholera and111–3
Choleric Diarrhoea
Totals69109108893746.093.81

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There is some hope that Pulmonary Consumption,
one of the Tubercular Class of diseases, a

Table: TABLEIII.The following Table shows the Annual, Quarterly, and Comparative Mortality among Children under 5 years of age:—

TABLEIII.

The following Table shows the Annual, Quarterly, and Comparative Mortality among Children under 5 years of age:—

Causes of Death.April, May, June.July, August, Septem.October, Novem. Decern.January, February March.In the Year.ComparativeMortality in 1000 population.
In England.In Paddington.
Small-Pox....2..2.137.020
Measles37421971.371.732
Scarlatina1068630.568.309
Diphther, Croup, &c.511613.057.134
Whooping Cough2012272584.481.867
Diarrhoea, Cholera, &c.2575367.691.691
Respiratory Organs221551501381.3821.424
Tubercular Diseases28401943130.7651.342
Nervous system13231522731.438.753
Violent Deaths9471232.172.330
Other Causes364732381532.6341.579
1482122092247937.3048.181