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population it did not exceed 18.2 per 1.000; the urban rate
being 1.7 and the rural rate 1.3 below the average rates in
the corresponding quarters of the ten years 1870-79. In
fact, the death rate throughout England and Wales during
the second quarter of this year was the lowest recorded in the
second quarter of any year since civil registration was established
in 1837. The average rate of mortality in the second
or spring quarters of the 41 years 1837-78 was equal to 21.9
per 1,000.
In the public institutions of the parish there were 82
deaths, viz., 28 in the Workhouse, 53 in St. Mary's Hospital,
and 1 in the Lock Hospital. The deaths in the Workhouse
are included in the 254 deaths registered in St. Mary's Subdistrict.
Of the 53 deaths in St. Mary's Hospital, 15 were
those of parishioners, and are dealt with in this report. The
remaining 38 deaths, and the 1 death in the Lock Hospital
were those of non-parishioners, and are excluded from consideration.
TABLE III.—Mortality at Different Ages.
Sub-districts.
Under
1 year.
Under
5 years.
66 years
and
upwards.
Percentage
of Deaths
of Infants
under 1 year
to
Registered
Births.
Percentage
of Deaths
of Children
under
5 years of
Total
Deaths.
St. Mary's
68
115
43
11.7
45.3
St. John's
17
33
26
10.9
30.8
Paddington
85
148
69
11.5
41.0
In Paddington the proportion of deaths of infants under
1 year of age to the registered births was 115 per 1,000. In
London it was 120, in the nineteen largest provincial towns
it averaged 141, in Cheltenham it was only 71, in Gateshead
and in Exeter it reached 184 per 1,000 births.
Of the 361 deaths in the parish during the quarter, 41
per cent. were of children under 5 years of age. Sixty-nine
persons died whose ages were 65 years and upwards.