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The mortality from this cause last year was 1.18 per
1,000 of all persons in Paddington and St. Mary's
District, and 1.19 in St. John's District. The percentage
increase in the mortality recorded last year
in comparison with the mean rates, is indicated
below:—
Increase (pee cent.) in Mortality in 1899,
compared with the respective mean-rates.
Decennium.
Quinquennia.
1889-98.
1889-93.
1894-98.
Paddington
+34
+38
+29
St. Mary
+37
+44
+31
St. John
+26
+25
+26
In the appended table the deaths registered during
the year as due to "cancer" have been classified—for
each sex in each sub-district—according to the site
mentioned first in the copy of the certificate. It is
impossible to say in what proportion of cases the site
so mentioned is the original or the secondary seat of
the disease. It will be of little profit to discuss on
the present occasion the particulars given in Table 20
as it is confined to a single year. Such discussion
may be more usefully deferred until the inquiry as
to the increase in prevalence of "cancer" (now in
course of prosecution) shall be complete. As part of
that inquiry the comparisons between the annual
average numbers of deaths registered in each of the
two four year periods, 1891-94 and 1895-98, and
those registered in 1899 may be of interest. This
table suggests that in North Paddington there has