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being exceeded only by the rates for 1895 (164) and
1890 (157). Among male infants the mortality was
169 per 1,000 male births registered, and among females
139 per 1,000 female births. The mortality in St.
Mary was 172 for boys, 143 for girls, and 158 for the
two sexes, the corresponding mortalities for St. John
being 151, 114, and 136 respectively. In London the
infantile mortality in 1896 was 161 per 1,000 births
registered, compared with a decennial average of 155,
and in England and Wales, 148, the same as the decennial
average. (See Table 23, infra.) The infantile
mortality for Paddington was 5 per 1,000 below the
rate for London and 7 per 1,000 above that for
England and Wales. In Tables 20 and 20a will
be found the numbers of deaths registered at various
ages under one year and between one and five
years.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
In Table 21 will be found the death-rates at all ages
for each and both sexes in Paddington and the two subdistricts
during 1896, to which are added the rates for
all persons in the whole Parish for the three years
1893-95. The actual numbers of deaths recorded
during 1896, in Padding-ton as a whole, distributed into
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twelve age-groups for each sex, will be found in Table
III in the Appendix (page 120).