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exceeded by more than 50 per cent, the average rate
in the nineteen provincial towns. In Paddington
there were 15 deaths, being at the rate of 9.0 per
1,000 deaths; in London the proportion was 6.7.
Whooping Cough.
More deaths resulted in London from whooping
cough than from any one (except diarrhoea) of the
seven principal zymotic diseases. In London the
proportion of deaths to every 1,000 deaths was 42.4;
in Paddington it was 29.4.
Fever.
To fever, the outcome generally of bad drainage,
bad water, and filth accumulation, fewer deaths in
London were referable last year than in any one of
the last forty years—a fact which shows that some
ameliorative influences were in operation, or, in other
words, that sanitary requirements, and the expendditure
in connection therewith, have not been wholly
unproductive of good. In Paddington, typhoid
fever caused 13 deaths, being at the rate of 7.8 per
1,000 deaths; whereas in London it was 8.5.
Diarrhœa.
Table V. shows that one half of the mortality
attributable to the seven principal zymoses was due