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In Paddington the deaths were also in excess of
the annual average for the preceding ten years, which
had been 42, and, as in the rest of London, this excess
occurred chiefly in the latter hall of the year.
Scarlet Fever caused 14 deaths, as compared
with an annual average of 31 in the preceding ten
years. All occurred in St. Mary's Sub-district, and
were equivalent to a rate of 0.12 per 1,000 inhabitants,
as compared with 0.31 per 1,000 in the preceding
year. Of the 14 deaths, 9 occurred in the first quarter
of the year, 3 in the second, and 1 in each of the last
two quarters.
92 cases were removed either to the Asylums
Hospitals or to the London Fever Hospital—84 from
St. Mary's and 8 from St. John's Sub-district.
The greater mortality during the first three months
of the year was due to the fact that the serious outbreak
of Scarlet Fever in the Metropolis which marked
the latter months of 1887 had not completely subsided
until the end of March, 1888.
In London the rate was 0.28 per 1,000 inhabitants,
as compared with an average annual rate of 0.46.
Diphtheria caused 75 deaths in Paddington, as
compared with 27 in the preceding year, and with an
annual average of 23 during the preceding decennium.
The rate was 0.65 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared