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in excess of I he average. The diminution in the proportion
of cases of "membranous croup" to those of
diphtheria, already commented on in earlier reports,
was continued last year.
The prevalence of infectious disease in the districts
immediately adjacent to the Parish cannot fail to
materially affect the spread of such diseases in the
Parish itself. Table 7 supplies the necessary information
for arriving at conclusions on this point. Smallpox,
cholera, and typhus, and relapsing fevers, were
practically non-prevalent in the districts included in
the table.
The fact (but not amount) of iucrease or decrease in
prevalence of each of the diseases scheduled,
in each district in 1899 as compared with 1898, is
indicated in the following tabular statement:—
Diphtheria
Erysipelas.
Scarle
Fever.
Enteric
Fever.
Puerperal
Fever.
Paddington
—
+
+
+
+
Marylebone
—
+
+
+
—
St. George, Hanover
Square
-
+
—
+
—
Kensington
+
+
—
+
—
Chelsa
—
—
—
+
+
Willesden
—
0
+
+
+
Note.—The sign + indicates that there was an increase 111 the sickness
rate from this disease, "—"a diminution, and "0" no change.
The relative positions of the different districts
according to the rates for 1899 were as follow:—
Diphtheria.
Scarlet Fever.
Enteric Fever.
Puerperal Fever
St. George, U.S.
St. George, H S.
St. George, U.S.
St. George, U.S.
Marylebone.
Kensington.
Chelsea.
Marylebone.
Kensington.
Marylebone.
Willesden.
Paddington.
Paddington.
Chelsea.
Paddington.
Kensington.
Chelsea.
Paddington.
Kensington.
Willesden.
Willesden
Willesden.
Marylebone.
Chelsea.