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the 27 largest provincial towns it ranged from 0.74 in Wolverhampton
to 6.48 in Norwich. In England and Wales the deaths
corresponded to an annual rate of 1.99 per 1,000, against an
average annual rate of 2.16 for the 10 preceding second quarters.
Small Pox caused no death in Paddington, nor did any
case during the quarter come under the notice of the Inspectors.
Measles caused 9 deaths, equivalent to an annual rate of 0.32
per 1,000 inhabitants. Seven of them occurred in St. Mary's
Sub-district. In London the rate was 1.17.
Scarlet Fever caused 4 deaths, all of which occurred in
St. Mary's Sub-district. 16 cases were removed to the Asylum
Hospitals, 14 of which were from St. Mary's and 2 from St.
John's Sub-district.
Diphtheria caused 3 deaths—1 in St. Mary's and 2 in
St. John's Sub-district. The houses in which the deaths
occurred were carefully inspected. One was in a fair sanitary
condition, in another the soil-pipe within the house was perforated
and the surface inlets open, in the third there were bell
traps within and without the house, the surface inlet in yard
was defective, and the cistern overflow pipe opened into the
D trap of the W.C.
Typhoid Fever caused 1 death in St. Mary's Sub-district—
(1), Shirland Road; an Upholsterer, aged 25 years; disease
contracted abroad.