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maximum prevalence in each district (indicated by
block type) appears to be a result of local rather than
general influences.
In North Paddington there were 61 deaths, as
compared with averages of 48, 73, and 61 for the two
quinquennia and the decennium respectively. The
mortality was 0.63 per 1,000, compared with a mean
rate of 0.65. In South Paddington 3 deaths occurred
during the year, 8 less than each of the averages for
the quinquennia and decennium. The mortality was
009 per 1,000, compared with a mean of 0.32, a very
marked improvement.
An examination of the sex-age mortality (Table
23) shows that the increase was almost entirely
confined to males, the rates for females at ages "1.5"
and "5.15" being below the mean rates for the previous
quinquennium, while that for ages "under one"
was only 0.11 per 1,000 above the mean. On the
other hand, the rates for males at all three ages were
above the mean rates. The greatest increase took
place in the rate for males aged "1.5" in North
Paddington, that for last year being 6.43, as compared
with a mean of 4.70. The incidence of the epidemic
of measles was greatest at these ages (see Table 22,
p. 62). The reductions in the rates in South
Paddington are all satisfactory, notably that for
males at "1-5," last year's rate being zero, as compared
with a mean of 4.43.