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From North Paddington 81 cases were reported,
compared with an average of 52. That is the largest
number on record, and was 18 in excess of the previous
maximum (63) recorded in 1898, and 49 in
excess of the minimum (32) recorded in 1892. In
South Paddington 17 cases were reported last year, a
number which has been exceeded four times, viz., in
1890 (23 cases), in 1894 (21 cases), and in 1892 and
1896 (18 cases in each year). The smallest total of
any year was that of 1897, when 11 cases were
recorded.
The notifications of the whole Parish were last
year equal to a rate of 0.75 per 1,000, compared with
a mean rate of 0.52. Last year's rate was the highest
of the series (10 years), was equivalent to a rise of 31
per cent. above the mean for the nine years, and was
47 per cent. higher than the lowest rate (0.35 recorded
in 1897). In North Paddington the cases notified
were equal to a rate of 0.85 per 1,000, 0.31 above the
mean for the preceding nine years (an increase of 36
per cent.), and the highest on record. A minimal
rate of 0.37 has been recorded twice, viz., in 1892 and
1897, in comparison with which last year's rate represents
an increase of 57 per cent. In South Paddiugton,
the case-rate was 0.51, 0.02 above the mean for the
nine years 1890-98, and equivalent to an increase of
only 2 per cent. The maximum rate (0.64) was recorded
in 1894, and was 25 per cent. higher than the