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Owing to measles being non-epidemic the total rates for the two groups are more nearly
equal than in 1900, when they were :—
Notified diseases, 0.33.
Not notified, 0.62.

The tubercular mortality (1.53) was 0.33 below the mean rate (l.86). The phthisis rate (1.04)
was the lowest recorded during eleven years, while that from " other forms " was lower last year
than in any year except 1889, when it was 0.46. In St. Mary the tubercular mortality was 1.72,
compared with a mean rate of 2.16; in St. John the rate was 0.91 and the mean 1.10 ; and in
North-West Paddington the rate was 1.79 and the mean 2.02. The complete figures will be found
in Tables 25 and 25A.
In the Report for 1900 (p. 55) attention was drawn to the favourable position which the Old
Parish enjoyed in comparison with other Metropolitan districts. A similar comparison cannot be
made at present, but in comparison with the adjacent districts, the rate for Hampstead last year
(0.92) was the only one below that for Paddington. The highest rate was that for Westminster
(1.88).
The foregoing rates are all calculated per 1,000 persons of all ages living. The appended
tabulation shows that such rates are of but little value on account of the differences in incidence of
mortality at the various ages and on the two sexes—factors which are by no means constant in the
different Boroughs. (See. Table 27.)

In the absence of information as to sex-age composition of the populations, and of the
" housing " conditions prevailing in the Wards, it is useless to comment on the rates recorded.