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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: The accidental deaths were attributed to the following causes:—

The accidental deaths were attributed to the following causes:—

Vehicular Traffic 6Falls, not exactly specified 6
Railway do 3Overlaid in bed 5
Fires, not conflagrations 5Drowned in Canals 2
Accidents at Birth 2
and one from each of the following miscellaneous causes:—
Mishandling a revolver.Injury to foot by boot.
Upsetting boiling water.Nutshell in windpipe.
Kick from horse.Window cleaning.
Suffocation in a fit.

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DEATHS IN INSTITUTIONS.
In the local institutions there were 519 deaths,
including 269 of non-parishioners; and, in institutions
beyond the limits of the Parish, 163 deaths
of parishioners occurred. In all, 401 deaths of
parishioners took place during the year in public
institutions, equal to 22.l per cent, of all deaths.

Table: Local Institutions.

Local Institutions.

Paddington Workhouse & Infirmary192, including 16 non-parishioners.
Lock Hospital2, „2„
Children's Hospital, Paddington Green63, „45„
St. Mary's Hospital262, „206„
Outlying Institutions.
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board54
Scarlet fever17Diphtheria87
General Hospitals35
Cancer10Tubercular diseases1
Other diseases, 24.
Special Hospitals14
Cancer3Tubercular diseases6
Other diseases, 5.
"Homes"7
Cancer4Tubercular diseases .2
Other diseases, 1.