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2 [Appendix IV.
The natural increment of the population, i.e., the excess of births registered during the year
over deaths of "residents," amounted to 829 persons last year, compared with 878, 935, 1,210,
1,126, and 880 in five preceding years. The average increment for the complete decennium
(1890.99) was at the rate of 936 persons per annum.
BIRTHS.
During the fifty.two weeks of the registration year, 2,890 births were recorded in the Parish,
viz., 1,460 of boys and 1,430 of girls, equivalent to a rate of 22*13 per 1,000 persons of all ages.
In North Paddington, 2,479 births were registered (1,254 of boys and 1,225 of girls), equivalent to
a rate of 25*48 per 1,000 inhabitants of the Sub.District. In South Paddington there were registered
411 births (206 of boys and 205 of girls), equivalent to a rate of 12.31. In Table 2 the figures for
each quarter of the year are given, as well as the annual and mean rates for each sex for the five
years 1895.99. In comparison with the quinquennial mean rates, the changes were as follow :—
Paddington. St. Mary. St. John.
Males ... —1.03 —1.22 —072
Females ... —0.50 —0.85 +0.28
Persons ... —1.53 —2.07 —044
In comparison with the figures for the preceding decennium (see Table 3), last year's total for
the Parish (2,890) was 69 below the average (2,959), while the rate (22*13) was 1'97 below the

* All rates are calculated per 1,000 persons in each District.