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Report of Medical Officer of Health.]

Of the 5 persons whose deaths were due to this disease, 4 were in persons who were removed
to hospital for isolation. The comparative fatalities (per cent.) among cases treated at home and in
hospital in each of the seven past years are set out below:—
Fatality among— 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900.
Hospital Cases 4.2 4.7 2.4 4.4 2.5 0.9 0.8
Home Cases 5.8 0.7 3.8 2.7 3.5 5.0 6.5
All Cases 5.0 3.3 2.7 4.0 2.6 1.8 1.6
Percentage of Notified Cases
Removed 82.3 65.3 78.7 77.3 80.1 71.6 84.6

The 27 deaths from diphtheria (including membranous croup) were less than half the decennial
average (59). The reduotion in the mortality was equally satisfactory in North Paddington (25
deaths, 52 average), and in South (2 deaths, 7 average). In comparison with the statistics of the
other areas included in Table 18, those of Paddington for last year are among the lowest in the
Table.
The death-rates for certain sex-age groups have been calculated and will be found in Table 26.
All the rates for last year were below the mean rates for 1893-99, and were, with one or two
exceptions, minimal rates.

The Registrar-General estimated the local rate to be:—
Paddington 0.21.