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with an average of 36. In 1893 57 notifications of
this disease were received from South Paddington,
the maximum record for any year, last year's total
being the minimum.
In North Paddington the mean rate for the ten
years was 2.41 per 1,000, the maximum rate recorded,
that of 1894 (3.82), representing an exeess over the
mean equal to 58 per cent., and the minimum, that of
1892 (1.55) a defect of 36 per cent. Last year's rate
was 22 per cent. below the mean. In South Paddington
the mean rate for the decennium (1890-99)
was 1.08, the maximum rate of the period (1.74 in
1893) representing an excess over the mean equal
to 61 per cent., and the minimum (0.66 in 1899), a
defect from the mean equal to 39 per cent. The
rates for males and females in the two Sub-Districts,
compared with the means for the quinquennium 189498,
will be found in Table 9, page 16. It will suffice
here to say that all rates show satisfactory diminutions.
So far the notifications have been dealt with as
received, except that duplicate notifications have been
excluded.