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of any form should have been reported. The excessive
heat of the summer gave rise, as will be set out
hereafter, to a severe epidemic of diarrhœa and to
an excess of enteric fever, and it might have been
expected that there would have been a similar increase
in the cases of "cholera."

It is satisfactory to be able to record the continued
decrease in the prevalence of this disease, so far as
concerns the Parish but the total for London (13,705)
was only 115 below the total for 1896 when the
maximum number of cases was recorded (13,820).
The mean case rate for the Parish during the ten
years 1890-99 was 2.04, the maximum rate (3.14)
having been recorded in 1894, and the minimum (1.45)
in 1891. Last year's rate was 24 per cent. below the
mean for the ten years, while that of 1891 was 29
per cent. below, and that of 1894, 54 per cent. above.
In North Paddington 181 cases were reported
during the year, compared with an average of 239
—showing a reduction of 58 cases. The maximum
number of cases for any year (340) was recorded in
1894, and the minimum (134) in 1892. In South
Paddington 22 cases were recorded in 1899, compared
* See note on page 213.