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They show that on the whole families living in
tenements with accommodation to the extent of 2
persons per room, or less, suffer to a slighter degree
than do families with averages of more than two
persons per room. The rate from "all diseases" among
families occupying tenements of four rooms or less,
was rather more than three times that of among those
in five or more rooms; while the rates from scarlet
fever and diphtheria, were respectively two and five
fold of the rates in the households of five or more
rooms.
HOSPITAL ISOLATION.
The cases of smallpox (4), of diphtheria and
membranous croup (242), of scarlet fever (790) and
of enteric fever (62) made up a total of 1,098 in all,
of which 778 were removed to hospital, equal to 70.8
per cent., as compared with 51.1 per cent. in 1895.
Of the cases of these diseases in North Paddington,
70.3 per cent, were removed in 1896, and in South
Paddington, 68.0 per cent. The proportions of cases
of each disease removed from their homes in each of
the last three years are set out below:
PADDINGTON 1896 1895 1894
Smallpox 75.0 100.0 92.9
Scarlet fever 76.8 65.3 82.3
Diphtheria 50.0 53.0 56.2
Enteric fever 51.6 37.1 4 1.8
Bearing in mind the fact that there were, during
the greater part of the year, considerably more
applications for beds for scarlet fever and diphtheria