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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 1909
Report on the vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1909
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4 Births.
TABLE 2. Births. Paddington. Corrected as fully as possible.
| All Births. | Illegitimate Births. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corrected Totals. | Birth Rates. | Corrected Totals. | Percentage of all Births. | |||||
| Per 1,000 persons. | Per 1,000 females, aged 15-45 years. | |||||||
| 1909. | 1909. | 1908. | 1909. | 1908. | 1909. | 1909. | 1908. | |
| Borough. | 3,031 | 20.01 | 62.19 | 140 | 4.6 | |||
| 382 | 23.49 | 100.69 | 11 | 2.8 | ||||
| 741 | 24.50 | 91.90 | 14 | 1.8 | ||||
| 392 | 19.18 | 54.26 | 27 | 6.8 | ||||
| 470 | 18.10 | 55.59 | 31 | 6.5 | ||||
| 743 | 26.19 | 98.12 | 34 | 4.5 | ||||
| 63 | 7.48 | 16.52 | 7 | 11.1 | ||||
| 48 | 6.07 | 11.91 | 1 | 2.0 | ||||
| 192 | 13.84 | 33.24 | 15 | 7.8 | ||||
TABLE 3. Births and Birth.Rates.
| Births Registered.1 | Birth.Rates. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per 1,000 persons. | Per 1,000 females, 15-45 years. | ||||
| 1909. | 1909. | 1904-08. | 1909. | 1904-08. | |
| Paddington | 2,895 | 19.04 | 58.95 | ||
| 117,547 | 24.31 | 88.82 | |||
| 3,188 | 17.35 | 48.17 | |||
| 2,518 | 14.90 | 45.26 | |||
| 2,534 | 20.10 | 61.06 | |||
| 1,282 | 13.61 | 35.92 | |||
| 1 4,039 | 25.17 | 90.58 | |||
* From Quarterly Reports of the Registrar.General. The total for Marylebone given above
has been corrected for births in Queen Charlotte's Lying.in Hospital not belonging
to that Borough.
Note.—According to the figures given in the Annual Supplement to the Weekly Reports
of the Registrar-General the corrected births and birth-rates for 1909 are—
Paddington. London. Kensington. Westminster. Marylebone. Hampstead
Births. 3,120 116,559 3,362 2,730 2,595 1,328
Rates. 20.6 24.2 18.4 16.2 20.6 14.1