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rate was 159, and in the 27 largest provincial towns it
ranged from 149 in Bristol to 233 in Preston.
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Zymotic Diseases.
Small-pox caused no death in Paddington; 2 cases
from St. Mary's Sub-district were removed to the
Asylum Hospitals.
In London the rate was 0.01 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Measles caused 66 deaths—56 in St. Mary's and
10 in St. John's Sub-district—equivalent to an annual
rate of 0 58 per 1,000 inhabitants.
In London the rate was 0.50 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Scarlet Fever caused 11 deaths, all of which
occurred in St. Mary's Sub-district, and were equivalent
to an annual rate of 0.10 per 1,000 inhabitants. 37
cases—36 from St. Mary's and 1 from St. John's Subdistrict—were
removed to the hospitals, 4 having
been sent to the London Fever Hospital and 33 to
the Asylum Hospitals.
In London the rate was 0.17.
Diphtheria caused 28 deaths—20 in St Mary's
and 8 in St. John's Sub-district—equivalent to a rate
of 0.25 per 1,000 inhabitants. In 5 instances the
disease was not contracted in Paddington, but all the
bouses in which the deaths occurred were carefully