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on an erroneous diagnosis. The cases were reported
singly from all streets, etc., except from Cambridge
Place (2 cases, one being that of a nurse iu charge
of a diphtheria patient at St Mary's Hospital), and
Westbourne Terrace (2 cases).
Of the 203 cases of diphtheria notified, 168 (equal
to 82.7 per cent.) were removed to hospital, viz., 152
(or 83.9 per cent. of the notified cases) from North
Paddington, and 16 (or 72.7 percent, of the notifications)
from South Paddington. Of children under 5
years of age 59 (equal to 85.7 per cent. of cases notified)
were sent to hospital from North Paddington, and
3 (equal to 100 per cent.) from South. In the whole
Parish the children under 5 years of age sent away
amounted to 84.9 per cent, of the notified cases at
those ages, and those aged 5 years and upwards, to
81.6. The total percentages of removals of diphtheria
cases in the years 1894-98 were 56.2, 53.0, 50.0,
60.8, and 64.3. There is good reason to think that
the increased proportion of patients sent to hospital has
had some influence in reducing the prevalence of the
disease in the Parish.

Although the cases of this disease reported
during the year were 79 in excess of the total for