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one year. The deaths were distributed in the proportion
of 57 to 9 between the Northern and Southern
divisions of the Parish, the corresponding rates being
0.61 and 0.26.
The foregoing diseases may be divided into two
groups, namely, those which are notified and rigorously
watched, including smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria,
and enteric fever, and those which, up to the present
time, have received but scant supervision, including
measles, whooping-cough, and diarrhoea. In the whole
Parish, the former diseases caused a death-rate of 0.837
per 1,000, the latter, one of 1.706. The disparity
between these rates will be perceived if the former
be taken as unity, the latter then becoming 2.037. In
North Paddington, the rate from the former group was
0.939, and from the latter, 2.095, or as 1 is to 2.231. In
South Paddington the rates were 0.559 and 0.647, or*
as 1 is to 1.57. Attention may be directed to the serious
demand which such figures indicate for more restrictive
regulation of the diseases included in the second group,
and also to the difference between the rates for the two
sub-divisions of the Parish.
The mortality records for the year from the other
diseases present no features of interest, the changes
being but slight. In Table 25 the numbers of deaths
from the more important causes, other than the
Principal Zymotic, are contrasted with the corrected