Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS.
Area of Borough 1,356·1 acres, including waterways 20·0 acres: | 1928 |
Population (Registrar-General's estimate) | 145,200 |
Density of population per acre | 107 |
Total number of buildings containing dwellings | 17,153 |
(a) Dwellings occupied by non-private families | 435 |
Population inhabiting the same | 12,910 |
38,320 | |
(Including vacant census night, 938). | |
Population enumerated in occupied dwellings | 131,351 |
Occupying 141,959 rooms, averaging 1·08 persons per room, or 0·92 room | |
per person. | |
Marriages | 1,724 |
Total. M. F. | |
14·99* | |
Deaths 1,893 913 980 Death-rate | 13·03* |
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth from sepsis ” other causes | 3 4 |
Maternal mortality | 3·21† |
Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age | 186 |
Infantile Mortality | 85† |
Legitimate, 75 †; Illegitimate, 160 † | |
Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 71 |
,, Whooping Cough (all ages) | 13 |
„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 23 |
„ Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 105 |
Death-rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 0·72* |
Deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis | 116 |
Tuberculosis death-rate | 0·79* |
Rateable Value | £1,695,356 |
Product of a Penny Rate | £6.814 |
* per 1,000 persons. † per 1,000 births.