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Diarrhœa.
No of cases recorded 1899; 1898 ? ; 1897 ?
„ Deaths „ „ 110 ; „ 92 ; „ 107
Fatality „ ? ; „ ? ; „ ?
Mortality „ 0.85; „ 0.72; „ 0.84
The deaths from this cause (or causes) were much
above the average in the Parish as a whole, and in the
Northern Sub-District. In the Parish the corrected
average for the decennium (79) was 31 below the
number of deaths recorded last year (110), while the
averages for the first and second quinquennia were
74 and 84 respectively. On the other hand in St.
John's Sub-District, 8 deaths were returned during the
year under this head, equal to the average for the
quinquennium 1889-93, 2 below that for the quinquennium
1894-98 (10), and one below that for the
decennium (9). The significance of this disease as a
cause of death, is not the same at all ages of
life, and, as will be presently shown, the increased
mortality from this cause at the younger ages, as
shown by deaths from 'diarrhœa,' does not reveal
the whole case. (See under "Infantile Mortality.")
The death-rate from diarrhœa was 0.85 per 1,000
of all ages last year for the whole Parish, compared
with a mean of 0.60 for the decennium, and of 0.56
and 0.64 for the first and second quinquennia. In
North Paddington, last year's rate was 1.07, compared
with means of 0.73, 0.69, and 0.77 for the