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Paddington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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BIRTHS.
rate observed in Westminster (12.63) was the lowest of the series, that for Hampstead (14.34)
the next lowest, being nearly 2 per 1,000 higher. Doubtless the great differences to be seen in
the rates included in Table 16 are, in part at least, due to different proportions of married
women at fertile ages. In the next report it is hoped that it may be possible to include
standard rates for all the districts, and thus make the corrections rendered necessary by such
differences in the populations.
TABLE 15.
| Births Recorded. | Birth.rates. | Percentage of Illegitimate to Total Births, 1913. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total. | Illegitimate. | 1913. | 1912. | 1908-12. | ||||
| Males. | Females | Males. | Females. | |||||
| Boroug | 1,540 | 1,479 | 101 | 87 | 1957 | 19.48 | 6.22 | |
| Queen.s Park | 176 | 179 | 6 | 5 | 22.03 | 24.98 | 3.09 | |
| Harrow Road | 376 | 376 | 13 | 12 | 27.50 | 25.95 | 3.32 | |
| Maida Vale | 222 | 200 | 15 | 20 | 1945 | 20.69 | 8.29 | |
| Westbourne | 235 | 216 | 13 | 14 | 18.97 | 20.32 | 5 99 | |
| Church | 401 | 360 | 40 | 28 | 30.24 | 27.36 | 8.93 | |
| Lancaster Gate | ||||||||
| West | 30 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 654 | 6 93 | 8.06 | |
| East | 26 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 6.98 | 7.98 | 8.70 | |
| Hyde Park | 74 | 85 | 7 | 5 | 12.36 | 13.33 | 7.54 | |
TABLE 16.
| London. | Haddington. | Kensington. | Westminster. | St. Marylebone. | Hampstead. | Willesden. | ||
| Births, | 1913 | 113,822 | 2,834 | 3,181 | 1,988 | 2,221 | 1,259 | 3,995 |
| 1912 | 111,512 | 2,774 | 3,079 | 2,132 | 2,246 | 1,224 | 3,914 | |
| Birth.rates, | 1913 | 24.71 | 19.60 | 18.26 | 12.63 | 19.07 | 14.34 | 24.01 |
| 1912 | 24.67 | 19.48 | 17.92 | 13.56 | 19.30 | 14 24 | 24.55 | |
Illegitimacy.—Included in the total of 2,832 births registered in the Borough were 156
births of illegitimate children, 83 of whom were males and 73 females. Such births formed 5.5
per cent. of the total births registered, as compared with 5.7 in 1912 and 6 0 in 1910. The
births of such children in the Workhouse numbered 53 (64.5 per cent. of all births in that
Institution, the corresponding figure for 1912 being 703, and for 1911, 66.3), those of males
numbering 30 and of females 23. Twenty.six out of the 53 births were born to non.resident
mothers, 9 of the 26 children (344 per cent.) being born in the Workhouse. The transfers
numbered 58 (30 of males and 28 of females), so that the corrected total of such births was 188
(101 of males and 87 of females), equal to 62 per cent. of the corrected total of births. In
1912 the proportion was 6.2 per cent., and in 1911, 5.7. The numbers of such births allocated to
the Wards are given in Table 15, together with the proportions (per cent.) to total births. The
highest proportion in any Ward recorded last year was 8.9 per cent. (Church Ward, 9.5 per
cent. in 1912), and the lowest 3T per cent. (Queen.s Park Ward, 4.5 per cent. in 1912). The
only Wards in which the proportion was lower last year than in 1912 were Queen.s Park and