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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1895
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1895
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of residents in the district of St. John, 428—or
13.30 per 1,000 of the inhabitants thereof. Last
year's death-rate in North Paddington was 2.15 per
1,000 in excess of the rate for 1894, and that of
South Paddington, 1.57 in excess. The numbers of
deaths of each sex for the whole Parish and its two
divisions, in each quarter, are set forth in Table 16
below.
TABLE 16.—Deaths of Parishioners in 1895. " Corrected."
| Deaths of Residents in | Paddington. | St. Mary. | St. John. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| During | Males. | Females. | Total. | Males. | Females. | Total. | Males. | Females. | Total. | |
| 1st Quarter | 347 | 398 | 745 | 281 | 309 | 590 | 66 | 89 | 155 | |
| 2nd „ | 211 | 216 | 427 | 165 | 166 | 331 | 46 | 50 | 96 | |
| 3rd „ | 229 | 254 | 483 | 184 | 211 | 395 | 45 | 43 | 88 | |
| 4th „ | 208 | 236 | 444 | 167 | 188 | 355 | 41 | 48 | 89 | |
| Year | 995 | 1,104 | 2,099 | 797 | 874 | 1,671 | 198 | 230 | 428 | |
| Death-rates per 1,000 | 1895 | 19.58 | 15.34 | 17.09 | 20.26 | 17.05 | 18.44 | 17.27 | 11.10 | 13.30 |
| 1894 | 17.22 | 13.55 | 15.06 | 17.73 | 15.18 | 16.29 | 15.52 | 9.63 | 11.73 | |
Last year's death-rate for the whole Parish was
0.45 per 1,000 in excess of the decennial mean rate
(16.64), and the corrected total of deaths (2,099)
150 in excess of the annual average (1,949). If the
annual average be corrected for the increase in
population it will be raised to 2,050 and the excess