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the age of 15, the mortality being heaviest between
the ages of 1 and 5 years. In 36 cases the
deceased were girls.
Scarlet Fever.—There were 13 deaths from this
disease last year, the corrected decennial average
number being 16.2. The cases were divided among
the sexes in the proportion of 7 males to 6 females.
Among the boys the deceased were aged from 1 to 5
years, and among the girls from 1 to 15. Eleven
of the deaths were among residents of the St. Mary's
District, and only two among those of St. John.
The mortality in the whole Parish was 0.10 per
1,000, the average rate for the previous nine years
having been 0.12. In London the rate for 1894
was 0.22, and that for the years 1885-93, 0.24 per
1,000.
In Paddington the case mortality from this disease
was equal to 5.02 per cent. of the notifications,
and that for all London (on the same basis), 5.21.
Of the local cases, 238 were removed to Hospital, 10
of which ended fatally, equal to 4.20 per cent.,
whilst among the cases treated at home the mortality
was 14.27 per cent.
Diphtheria.—The corrected total of deaths in
1894 from this cause was 92, equal to a death-rate
of 0.75 per 1,000. The corrected average annual
number of deaths during the decennium 1884-93
was 41.7, and the mean death-rate for the nine