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The deaths from these causes amounted to 315 in all,
and were equivalent to a rate of 2.46 per 1,000
persons of all ages, as compared with a decennial
mean of 2.16. In North Paddington the rate for the
year was 3.00, and the mean rate 2.60, while in South
the former was 0.95, and the latter l.07.
These Zymotic Diseases naturally fall into two
classes, (a) those which are notified, and for the
prevention of which isolation, &c., are enforced, and
(b) those of which nothing is heard until the fatal
issue is recorded. In the former are included smallpox,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, and "fever," and in the
latter measles, whooping cough, and diarrhoea. The
deaths from the former group of diseases amounted to
89, equal to a rate of 0.69 per 1,000 persons, and those
of the latter group to 229, equal to a rate of 1'77.
The death-rate from group (a) was 0.73 in 1897, and
0.84 in 1896, while that from group (6) was 1.18 and
1.71 respectively. Last year the rates from group (a)
in North and South Paddington were 0.82 and 0.26
respectively, and those from group (b) 2.18 and 0.69.

The deaths from this disease were one below the
average, and the mortality (calculated per 1,000
persons living of both sexes) 0.03, equal to the mean.