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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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In London the rate was 0.31.
Typhoid Fever caused 3 deaths in St. Mary's Sub-district —
equivalent to an annual rate of 0.l per 1,000 inhabitants.
One case was removed from the same district to an Asylum
Hospital. In London the rate was 0.25. The fatal cases were
as under:—
(1.) Porchester Square. Daughter of a solicitor, age
5 years. Disease contracted in Scotland.
(2.) Welling's Place. Daughter of a carman, age 10
years. No sanitary defects.
(3.) Porchester Square. Wife of a gentleman, age 58
years. Drainage defective.