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the patients under 5 years of age, 25 per cent. were
removed to hospital, and of those aged over five years,
53.6.

The whole of the cases of this disease were reported
in North Paddington, in which district 60 cases
have been reported in the eight years 1890-97, as
compared with four cases in South Paddington. In the
former district 17,394 births were registered in the
eight years, and in the latter 3,285, so that the cases
of puerperal fever (as notified) have been just about
three times as frequent in the former as in the latter
district. In at least three of the seven cases reported
last year, the patient had no medical attendance at
the time of labour.
Inasmuch as the amount of infectious disease in a
district depends, to some extent, on the prevalence of
such disease in the adjacent districts, Table 9 has been
prepared to compare the local prevalence of disease
with those of the districts co-terminous with the
Parish. The Table contains the number of cases of
each disease reported in each quarter and in the whole
year, with the rates per 1,000. The figures have been
taken from official sources, viz., the Weekly Returns of
the Local Government and the Metropolitan Asylums
Boards.