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Paddington 1931

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

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VITAL STATISTICS.
The Metropolitan Borough of Paddington as constituted under the London Government Act,
1899, covers an area of 1,356*1 acres, including 20-0 acres of waterways. It is co-extensive with
the Civil Parish and Registration District of the same name. The Borough is divided into
nine wards.

Table: General Summary of Vital Statistics.

General Summary of Vital Statistics.

Year.Estimated Population.Births.Deaths at All Ages.Deaths under One Year.
Registered Locally.Transfers.Nett.Registered Locally.Gross Mortality.Transfers.Nett.Registered Locally.Nett.
Out.In.Totals.Rates.Out.In.Totals.Mortality.Number.MortalityTotals.Mortality.
1921145,6002,6532965022,85919.631,78412.253723461,75812.0730711526392
1922145,3002,5572884622,73118.791,92913.273653241,88812.992248818969
1923146,2002,4102754852,62017.921,74311.923383171,72211.772078618069
1924146,4002,3432844462,50517.112,05414.034753411,92013.112329919678
1925147,1002,2063124432,33715.882,01113.675703391,78012.101968817072
1926146,7002,1313454622,24815.322,06714.095543441,85712.652109819486
1927142,7002,0643224742,21615.532,00614.054894191,93613.561889117679
1928145,2002,0743764792,17714.991,95413.455074461,89313.031868918685
1929142,8002,0584475182,12914.902,34416.415504172,21115.48230111215101
1930142,8002,2165244692,16115.131,89013.234823971,80512.641747816978
1931*140,3002,0734624642,07514.792,00014.255894201,83113.0522811018287
*Registrar-General's estimate of resident population.

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POPULATION.
At the census which was taken on the 26th April, 1931, 144,950 persons were enumerated
in the Borough. This figure includes a number of persons whose homes were situated in
other districts, and does not take into account residents of Paddington, who on the night of
the census, were staying elsewhere. These factors have been taken into consideration by the
Registrar-General in arriving at his estimate of the resident population of the Borough at
the middle of the year 1931, which he gives as 140,300 persons.
As the population figures for the various Wards of the Borough at the census of 1931
are not yet available, the estimated resident population of 140,300 persons, has in the
following table, been distributed among the Wards in the proportions recorded at the
previous census.
The Borough 140,300
Wards—
Queen's Park 15,321
Harrow Road 26,758 North Paddington
Maida Vale 21,493 70,827
Town 7,255
Westbourne 23,440
Church 17,012
Lancaster Gate, West 9,270 South Paddington
Lancaster Gate, East 7,937 69,473
Hyde Park 11,814
MARRIAGES.
According to provisional figures supplied by the Registrar-General 1,666 marriages were
solemnized in the Borough during 1931, being a rate of 23-7 persons per 1,000 of the population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough during 1931 was 2,073. From this total
it is necessary to deduct 462 births which occurred to residents of other localities and to add
464 births which occurred to Paddington residents outside the Borough. The corrected total
of 2,075 births thus obtained is equal to a rate of 14-79 per 1,000 of the population.
Of the 2,075 births, 1,045 were those of males and 1,030 those of females, and of these
120 ma'.es and 119 females were illegitimate.