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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 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE 9.
Notification Rates (per 1,000 individuals in each group), for 1899, compared with mean rates for 5 years, 1894.98.
| District. | | Age. | . | FEMALES. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox. | Diphtheria & Mem. Croup. | Erysipelas. | Fevers. | *A11 Diseases. | Smallpox. | Diphtheria & Mem. Croup. | Erysipelas. | Fevers. | *A11 Diseases. | ||||||
| Scarlet. | Enteric & Continued. | Scarlet. | Enteric & Continued. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||
| PADDINGTON. | under 5 years. | 1899 | — | 6.1 | 1.3 | 6.2 | 0.1 | 13.8 | _ | 5.7 | 1.2 | 9.1 | 0.1 | — | 16.3 |
| mean. | 0.1 | 10.1 | 1.2 | 11.0 | 0.4 | 23 1 | 00 | 9.1 | 0.5 | 10.4 | 0.1 | — | 20 4 | ||
| 1899 | — | 1.1 | 1.0 | 30 | 1.0 | 6.3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 5.0 | |||
| mean. | 00 | 1.5 | 09 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 1*6 | 1.0 | 2 6 | 03 | 0.0 | 5.7 | ||
| All ages. | 1899 | — | 1.7 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 7.1 | — | 1.4 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 6.0 | |
| mean. | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 8.4 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 6.9 | ||
| ST. MARY. | under 5 years. | 1899 | _ | 7.0 | 1*3 | 6.6 | 0.1 | 15.3 | _ | 6.o | 1.3 | 91 | 0.1 | - | 17.2 |
| mean. | o.l | 11.1 | 1.2 | 11 .6 | 0.4 | 24.6 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 0.6 | 11.1 | 0.2 | . | 22.1 | ||
| 5 ears and upwards. | 1899 | — | 1.3 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 6.7 | — | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 5 9 | |
| mean. | 00 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 7.0 | 00 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 6.8 | ||
| All ages. | 1899 | — | 2.0 | 1.1 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 7.8 | — | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 7.0 | |
| mean. | 0.0 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 4*5 | 0.6 | 9.0 | 0 0 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 04 | 0.1 | 8 2 | ||
| ST. JOHN. | under 5 years. | 1899 | — | 10 | 1.0 | 4.1 | - | 6.2 | _ | 1.9 | 0.9 | 8.9 | - | — | 11.9 |
| mean. | — | 6.4 | 0.4 | 7.9 | 0.6 | lo.6 | oo ! | 4.7 | — | 6.7 | - | — | 11.7 | ||
| 5 years and upwards. | 1899 | . | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 03 | - | 2.9 | ||
| mean. | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0 8 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 03 | 00 | 3.4 | ||
| All ages. | 1899 | — | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 4.8 | _ | 0.6 | 05 | 1.7 | 0.3 | - | 3.3 | |
| mean. | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 0 7 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 03 | 00 | 3.7 | ||
No cases of smallpox have been reported in the
Parish for three years, the cases notified as such in
1897 having been erroneously diagnosed. The 29
reported in the Metropolis constituted the smallest
total for any year since notification has been in force.
Nothing is at present known as to the proportion of
the 29 cases erroneously diagnosed. From the experience
of the preceding years, it may be taken as
certain that the proportion was somewhat large.
Cholera.
Paddington.
London.
Cases reported in 1899
—
15
Average annual number, 1890-98 ...
0‡
36
Case-rate, 1899
—
0.00
Only two cases of cholera have been reported in
Paddington since 1890, neither of them being the
genuine disease, but attacks of diarrhœa due to irritant
food, &c. In London, the 15 cases reported during
the past year were 21 below the annual average number
of cases, and, with the exception of the 13 cases reported
in 1896, the smallest total for any year.
The term "cholera" not being limited to the Asiatic
disease, it is somewhat remarkable that so few attacks
* All rates, except where otherwise indicated, are calculated per 1,000
persons of all ages.
† "0.00" indicates a rate of less than 0.01.
‡ "0" indicates a corrected annual average of less than unity.