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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 1898

Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1898

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Table: TABLE 12. Deaths of Parishioners.

TABLE 12. Deaths of Parishioners.

Deaths recorded 1898.Paddington.St. Mary.St. John.
Males.Females.Both Sexes.Males.Females.Both Sexes.Males.Females.Both Sexes.
1st Quarter2613376012252684933969108
2nd „228235463183184367455196
3rd252239491212196408404383
4 th261214475225170395364480
Year1005104520308458181663160207367
Rates 189819.0213.6915.8920.6415.3417.6413.439.6110.97
Mean Rates 1893—1897.18.5214.1115.9319.10 15.0617.3216.529.6812.12
Death-Rates189717.3512.2014.3317.86 14.0015.6815.607.8410.60
189618.5813.0615.3419.82 15.0017.0914.468.4110.67
189519.5815.3417.0920.26 17.0518.4117.2711.1013.30
189417.2213.5515.0617.73 15.1816.2915.529.6311.73
189319.8716.4417.8619.87 18.5819.1419.8711.4214.43

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* Rates per 1,000 individuals in each group.
Paddington the total for the year was 367, as
compared with an annual average for the preceding
ten years of 437, showing a reduction of 70, and
the rate for the year (10.97) was 1.76 below the
mean (12.73). (See Table 13.) In England and
Wales the death-rate was 17.6 per 1,000, or 0.8
below the decennial mean, and in London 18.7,
or 1.0 below the mean.
In the foregoing comparison, no note has been
taken of the differences in the sex and age constitutions
of the different populations. Proper factors have