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then the total number of persons attacked by the
disease in 1887 may be estimated at 13,841.
Paddington was affected by the epidemic simultaneously
with the rest of London.
The total number of deaths of parishioners in
1887 was 35, equivalent to a rate of 0.3l per 1,000
inhabitants, as compared with a rate of 0.34 in
London as a whole.
The number of cases of scarlet fever removed from
Paddington to the hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board and to the London Fever Hospital was
During the 1st quarter of 1887 32
„ 2nd „ „ 16
„ 3rd „ „ 55
„ 4th „ „ 124
1st „ 1888 53
„ 2nd „ 32
The total number of persons suffering from scarlet
fever removed to the hospitals in 1887 was 227.
Assuming the case-mortality in the parish to have
been the same as in the hospitals, the total number of
persons attacked by the disease in Paddington in 1887
may be estimated at 568.
As regards the distribution of the disease in
Paddington, of the 227 cases removed to hospital, 206
were from St. Mary's Sub-district and 21 from St.
John's. Of the 35 deaths (including those that