London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Paddington 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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In London the rate was 0.23.
Typhoid Fever caused 5 deaths—4 in St. Mary's and 1 in
St. John's Sub-district— equivalent to an annual rate of 0.l6
per 1,000 inhabitants. In London the rate was 0.17.
In St. Mary's Sub-district the fatal cases were as under :—
(1.) Braithwaite Place. Son of a carman, age 9 years.
In house no sanitary defects apparent. Complaint
made of the street gullies.
(2.) Kilburn Park Road. A bootmaker, age 17 years.
No sanitary defects.
(3.) Woodfield Crescent. Wife of a bricklayer, age 40.
House-drain badly constructed, irregular fall,
joints open, connexions imperfect.
(4.) Kensal Road. Daughter of a labourer, age 10 years.
House in fair sanitary condition.
In John's Sub-district the only fatal case was:—
(1.) Queen's Road. Daughter of a fruiterer, aged 18
years. House in fair sanitary condition.
Diarrhoea caused 55 deaths, equivalent to an annual rate of
1.92 per 1,000 inhabitants. Of these, 48 occurred in St. Mary's
and 7 in St. John's Sub-district. 48 were of infants under 1
year of age, and 4 of children between 1 and 2 years of
age.
In London the rate was 3.05.