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Paddington 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Table: The following table shows the deaths and death-rates during each of the last five years in England and Wales, in London, in Paddington and in each of the wards of the Borough:—

The following table shows the deaths and death-rates during each of the last five years in England and Wales, in London, in Paddington and in each of the wards of the Borough:—

1925.1924.Death-rates.
No. of Deaths.Death-rates.No. of Deaths.Death-rates.1923.1922.1921.
England and Wales473,00612.2472,71512.211.612.812.1
London53,59411.755,88712.211.413.512.5
Paddington1,78012.101,92013.1111.7712.9912.07
Wards.
Queen's Park18311.3919111.9410.7112.0311.19
Harrow Road30310.8035112.5712.0912.7012.35
Maida Vale26711.8427912.4312.7213.0712.64
Westbourne34413.9937115.1612.9714.2114.34
Church (including Town)37514.7340015.7912.6915.5112.46
Lancaster Gate, West10010.2810210.549.629.6810.49
Lancaster Gate, East779.25829.909.0610.217.89
Hyde Park13110.5714411.689.9911.6010.27

Table: The following table shows the course of the death-rate in the Borough in the past:—

The following table shows the course of the death-rate in the Borough in the past:—

DEATH-RATES—PADDINGTON.
1881-188516.23
1886-189016.19
1891-189517.17
1896-190015.51
1901-190515.33
1906-191014.52
1911-191514.06
1916-192014.62
192112.07
192212.99
192311.77
192413.11
192512.10

Table: Deaths in Institutions.

Deaths in Institutions.

1924.1925.
Local.TotalNonresidents.TotalNonresidents.
Paddington Infirmary5632954428
St. Mary's Hospital251182278198
Paddington Green Children's Hospital70505539
Hospital for Women and Children (Lock Hospital)11101212
St. Luke's Hospital*133124223209
1,0283951,112486
Deduct Non-residents395486
633626
* Opened January, 1924.
Paddington Residents.
Outlying.1924.1925.
Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board2916
Poor Law Institutions3130
Lunatic Asylums5676
Voluntary Hospitals (General)7794
,, ,, (Special, including Sanatoria)5633
249249
Total Deaths of Paddington residents in institutions882875

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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During the year 1924 there were 2,505 births and 196 deaths of children under the age of twelve
months in the Borough. These figures give an infantile mortality-rate (deaths of infants under
12 months to each 1,000 births) of 78.
The corresponding figures for the year 1925 are 2,337 births, 170 deaths and an infantile mortalityrate
of 72.