Report on the health of Paddington for the quarter ending Lady-Day, 1872 : with a special report of the small pox epidemic of 1871 / by Wm. Hardwicke.

  • Hardwicke, William.
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[1872]
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Credit: Report on the health of Paddington for the quarter ending Lady-Day, 1872 : with a special report of the small pox epidemic of 1871 / by Wm. Hardwicke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    100 in 1870; 91 in 1871. Three persons died of Small Pox in the Hospitals out of the Parish. Amongst the most fatal forms of epidemic disease, whooping cough ranks high, having destroyed 23 young children in 3 months. The 13 fever cases are not well marked, being more or less complicated with local disease, described as bilious, purpura, mania, &c. Cases of Small Pox still linger in the Parish, but the epidemic is declining. 75 deaths are recorded in the group of consumptive or wasting maladies; besides 9 7 from the inflammatory and other chest diseases, one-third of this latter are in young children, Bronchitis and Pneumonia alone killing 33 children during the three present winter months. There were 50 deaths in St. Mary’s Hospital during the quarter; 31 in Paddington Workhouse, and 1 in the Lock Hospital. Inquests were held upon 34 persons, of which 12 were returned as deaths from natural causes ; 22 were violent deaths; such as infanticide, suicide, accidental suffocation, drowning, burns, steeet and railway accidents. 18'3 per cent, of the total deaths were in the Hospital and Workhouse—which is the general proportion of deaths of persons dying in the public institutions of the country. TABLE II. Deaths from Zymotic and other Diseases during 13 weeks ending March 30th, 1872. Weeks. ending Small-Fox. Measles. Scarlatina. Diphtheria, Quinsy* Croup Whooping Cough Typhus, Infantile and other Fevers. 1 Carbuncle, Erysipelas and Pyaemia. Dysentery and Diarrhoea. Cholera. Phthisis and | Tubercular Dis. Bronchitis and | Pneumonia. i Other Diseases. Accidents and Violent Deaths. 1 Total. Jan. 6 6 5 13 4 28 „ 13 1 ... 1 1 2 8 4 6 4 27 „ 20 1 ... 3 3 1 7 7 12 1 35 „ 27 ... ... 2 1 • •• 3 9 15 1 31 Feb. 3 1 1 1 1 8 9 17 6 44 „ 10 ... 3 i 13 4 13 3 37 „ 17 2 l 1 6 5 11 2 28 „ 24 1 1 1 l . . . 1 6 16 27 March2 1 2 l 1 1 3 12 21 1 43 „ 9 i 3 6 7 14 31 „ 16 1 1 2 • . . 3 11 24 2 44 „ 23 2 2 2 i 4 9 17 2 39 „ 30 2 1 2 i ... 7 7 14 34 ...