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The corrected death-rate for Paddington obtained
by this method was 16.63 per 1,000,1. below the rate
for England and Wales (17.1), an 12.67 below that for
London (19.30). Of the districts included in Table 18,
St. George's, Hanover Square (15.01), Hampstead
(13.70), Hackney (16.49), and Wandsworth (15.27),
had rates below that for Paddington. whilst the highest
rate was that for St. George-in-the-East (25.45), and the
lowest that for Hampstead (13.70). In Whitechapel,
the most densely populated of all the districts
mentioned (each person has on average 0.004 acre of
land), the rate was 22.23 per 1,000, whilst in Wandsworth,
the least densely populated (each person has on
average 0.049 acre of land), the rate was 15.27.
The "natural increment," i.e., the excess of births
over deaths, of the population of Paddington during
1896 amounted to 1,126 lives, as compared with an
annual average of 1,042 during the decennium 1886-95.
In London the increment during 1896 was 52,285 lives,
and the decennial average 48,029, whilst in England and
Wales, the increment for the year was 389,272, against an
average of 350,737. Last year's increments were equal
to 0.90 per cent, of the population of the Parish, 1.18
per cent, of that of London, and 1.26 per cent. of that
of England and Wales. In 1895 the percentages were
0.71, 1.06, and 1.16 respectively, and in 1894, 0*81,
1.23, and 1.29. In each case the percentage is calculated
on the estimate of the population for the middle
of the year dealt with.