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years. Endeavours will be made to elucidate the
effect of the varying proportions of children in the
tenements.
HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
Of the 847 cases of infectious disease notified
during the year, 457 were removed to hospital for
isolation, equal to 51.5 per cent of all cases. From
North Paddington there were removed 380 cases out
of 717, equal to 52.9 per cent.; and from South
Paddington, 57 out of 130, equal to 43.8 per cent.
The cases removed were—10 of small-pox, 474 of
scarlet fever, 126 of diphtheria (including 2 of membranous
croup), 26 of enteric fever, and 1 of
erysipelas. The removals of each disease were equal
to the following percentages of notifications, the
percentages for 1894 being shown in parentheses—
small-pox 100 (92.9), scarlet fever 65.3 (82.3), diphtheria
53.0 (56.2), and enteric fever 37.1 (43.8).
From the middle of July onwards to the end of
November, there was very great difficulty in securing
the necessary accommodation for all classes of disease,
which accounts almost entirely for the smaller proportions
of the removals to the notifications.
In consequence of the difficulty in removing
cases of infectious disease experienced throughout
the Metropolis, and the refusal of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board to open Gore Farm Hospital