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1.6 for females, and 1.1 for males in the latter. At
all other ages males suffered more than females.
Males appear to be at all ages more prone to
enteric fever than females, there being no exception
to the rule of higher rates in the former sex. The
rates given last year (see Report for 1894, Table 8a,
page 35) follow much the same lines as do those in
Table 11a above, except that the incidence of diphtheria
was rather greater on females than on males.
Endeavours will be made during the current year to
get out age-group tables for the years previous to
1894, when the incidence of disease, as shown by the
notifications, will be more readily apparent.
OVERCROWDING AND DISEASE.
Attention was called to this subject last year,
when certain statistics bearing on it were given in
tabular form (see Report for 1894, Table 9, page 37).
The figures given in Table 12 below follow the same lines
as those in last year's Table. With the single exception
of the death-rate at ages of "5 years and
upwards" from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases,
the rates in North Paddington were in excess of those
in the southern half of the Parish. In the last two
columns of the Table the rates prevailing in St. John's
District have been taken as standards of comparison
(equal to 100), and the figures given show the
proportions which the rates for North Paddington
bear to that standard; as examples the following
may be quoted:—for every 100 cases of sickness at