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HOUSING
The above cases were equal to a morbidity rate of 8.65 per 1,000 persons, as compared
with 5.67 for the remaining parts of the Borough. (See Table 39). In addition to the cases
of notified diseases set out above, 405 (404) cases of measles, 103 (102) of whooping cough,
and 70 (67) of chickenpox came to the knowledge of the Department.
The total mortality (Table 39) was at the rate of 24.49 per 1,000, rather more than twice
the rate of the Rest of the Borough (11.91), and nearly 1.00 per 1,000 above the rate for the
(practically) same streets in 1906 (23.53). The principal increases were recorded for measles
(rate 0.97, 1907; 0.45, 1906), diphtheria (rate 0.48, 1907; 0.16, 1906), and respiratory diseases
(rate, bronchitis and pneumonia, 4.65, 1907; 4.05, 1906). There was a great decrease in the
diarrhœal diseases (rate 0.91, 1907; 2.92, 1906). Last year the deaths at ages under one
year constituted 24 per cent. of all deaths in the "Registered Streets," and 16 per cent. in the
"Rest of the Borough," while the infantile mortality (per 1,000 births), was 134 in the former
and 102 in the latter.

The usual statistics for the "Clarendon Street" Area are given in Table 40. In
comparison with the mean rates for 1902-06, all the rates for the notified diseases were lower
last year, except that for diphtheria, which rose by 0.51 per 1,000. All last year's rates for
the Area were higher than the rates for the "Rest of the Borough," the greatest differences
being those of erysipelas and enteric fever.