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Paddington 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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births. 3
The births registered last year were 242 below the mean annual number for the ten years.
An analysis of last year's registrations, with the rates for 1901.05, is to be found in Table 3.
TABLE 3.
Births and Birth.Rates. 1905.
| Births. | Borough. | Registration Sub.Districts. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Mary. | St. John. | North.West Paddington | |||
| Males | 1,628 | 1,209 | 205 | 214 | |
| Females | 1,556 | 1,177 | 183 | 196 | |
| Totals | 3,184 | 2,386 | 388 | 410 | |
| Birth.Rates. | |||||
| Per 1,000 persons | 1905 | 21.55 | 24.48 | 11.56 | 24.54 |
| 1904 | 22.44 | 26.17 | 11.26 | 23.37 | |
| 1903 | 22.62 | 26.02 | 11.37 | 25.82 | |
| 1902 | 22.41 | 25.45 | 11.29 | 27.48 | |
| 1901 | 23.29 | 27.14 | 11.57 | 25.30 | |
| Per 1,000 females aged 15.45 years. | 1905 | 66.8 | 82.4 | 26.2 | 105.2 |
| 1904 | 69.6 | 88.0 | 25.5 | 100.5 | |
| 1903 | 70.1 | 87.6 | 25.7 | 110.6 | |
| 1902 | 71.6 | 87.0 | 26.0 | 119.7 | |
| 1901 | 72.1 | 91.4 | 26.2 | 108.3 | |
The rate for 1904 was 1.67 below the mean (24.11) for 1894.03, while that for last
year was 2.35 below the mean for 1895.04. (Sec below.) In the Registration Sub.Districts
the greatest decrease (3.51) occurred in North.West Paddington, the district with the
highest rate.
Birth.Rates, Per 1,000 persons of all ages.
| Mean Rates. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905. | 1895.1899. | 1900.1904. | 1895.1904. | |
| Borough | 21.55 | 24.95 | 22.85 | 23.90 |
| St. Mary | 24.48 | 28.58 | 26.32 | 27.64 |
| St. John | 11.56 | 12.56 | 11.54 | 12.05 |
| North.West Paddington | 24.54 | 30.16 | 25.95 | 28.05 |
Institutions.—Of the 3,184 births registered, 121 (3.8 per cent.) took place in the
Workhouse, and 161 other births of children whose parents were reputed to belong to
Paddington occurred in Lying.in Hospitals outside the Borough, viz., Queen Charlotte's,
156 (158); British, 3 (4); and General, 2(7).
For the first time complete returns of particulars of births have been received during the
year, whereby it is possible to allocate the births to the Wards, &c., in which the children's
parents resided, and to exclude from the final returns the births of children whose parents do
not belong to the Borough.
Of the births registered in the Borough, 29 (16 of males and 13 of females) must be thus
excluded, 18 of the births occurring in the Workhouse, and of the 161 births in the Lying.in
Hospitals already referred to, 17 (10 of males and 7 of females) have to be similarly dealt
with.