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deaths occurred, the death-rate being, as is shewn in
Table IV., 2.1 per 1,000 of the population, the same
as in 1877, whereas in London it was 33, Whilst
the above figures represent all the deaths which
actually occurred in the parish from those diseases,
they do not include the cases of small-pox and of
scarlet fever which were removed to the hospitals
outside the parish.
Small-pox.
From small-pox three deaths occurred in the
parish. In my last Annual Report some particulars
are given of 25 cases which came under the notice
of the Sanitary Department during the first eleven
months of the year 1879. In December one other
case was removed from St. John's. Of the 26 cases
in all removed during the year—8 from St. Mary's
and 18 from St. John's—6 were sent to the Smallpox
and Vaccination Hospital at Highgate, and 20
to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum Board.
In London the deaths from small-pox were 2,544 in
1877, 1,416 in 1878, and 458 in 1879.
Measles.
Measles, which in London was more than usually
fatal, caused 29 deaths in Paddington, 27 being of
children under five years of age. The proportion of
deaths to every 1,000 deaths was 15.0; in London
it was 29.0.