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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 1897

Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1897

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Table: TABLE 10. Deaths of Parishioners.

TABLE 10. Deaths of Parishioners.

Deaths recorded 1897.Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.
Males.Females.Both Sexes.Males.Females.Both Sexes.Males.Females.Both Sexes.
1st Quarter2452184631891723615646102
2nd „209194403164151315454388
3rd „241248489204204408374481
4th „211244455163208371483684
Year90690418107207351455186169355
Death Rates * 189717.3512.2014.3317.8614.0015.6815.607.8410.60
Mean Rates 1892—1896.19.1114.8416.6019.7316.6417.9817.0610.5812.87
Death Rates *189618.5813.0615.3419.8215.0017.0914.468.4110.67
189519.5815.3417.0920.2617.0518.4417.2711.1013.30
189417.2213.5515.0617.7315.1816.2915.529.6311.73
189319.8716.4417.8619.8718.5819.1419.8711.4214.43
189220.3215.8217.6820.9917.4018.9618.2012.3314.35

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* Rates per 1,000 individuals in each case.
rates were 1.76 and 2.64 per 1,000 lower than the
corresponding means for the preceding five years. Of
the residents of North Paddington, 1,455 deaths were
recorded, equal to a rate of 15.68 per 1,000 of the
inhabitants of the district, and of the residents of
South Paddington, 355 deaths, equal to a rate of
10.60. The latter rate would be considered a very
good record in a health resort. The differences
between the rates for last year and those for the
quinquennium 1892-96 will be found in Table 10.
The rate for North Paddington (15.68) was 2.32 per
1,000 below the decennial mean rate (18.00), that for