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It will be observed that the number of deaths during the
third quarter considerably exceeded that of the corresponding
period of last year, which was an exceptionally healthy
quarter. The same fact was observable throughout the
country.
In the public institutions of the parish there were
92 deaths; viz., 33 in the Workhouse, 57 in St. Mary's Hospital,
and 2 in the Lock Hospital. The 33 deaths in the
Workhouse—15 males and 18 females—being regarded as those
of parishioners, are included in the 393 deaths registered in
St. Mary's sub-district. Of the 57 deaths in St. Mary's Hospital
45 were those of non-parishioners, as were the 2 in the
Lock Hospital, and are therefore not dealt with in this
report.

The 385 deaths during last quarter included 125 of infants
under one year of age, 174 of children under 5 years, and 66
persons aged 65 years and upwards. The rate of infant mortality
in Paddington was 199 deaths to 1,000 registered births.
In London the proportion was 212; in the aggregate of the
nineteen largest provincial toAvns it averaged 2G3; in Swansea
it was 109, in Preston, 376 per 1,000; in Westmorland the
proportion was only 87; in Leicestershire it reached 271 per
1,000 births. The excessive mortality of infants in Paddington
explains the fact of the total deaths during this quarter being
more numerous than during the corresponding quarters of the