[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of] page 13

Paddington 1933

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

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Infantile Mortality and Migratory Population.
During recent years it has become obvious that in certain parts of the Borough a change is taking
place in the composition of the population. The increasing number of furnished rooms and one and
two-roomed tenements now offered for occupation in the larger houses formerly inhabited by single
families, is attracting a class of resident whose stay in the Borough is, in many cases, only of short
duration. Coincident with the increase in this transitory portion of the population has occurred a
marked increase in the rate of infantile mortality. With the object of ascertaining, if possible, whether
any relationship existed between these two facts, a special investigation was undertaken in the
early part of the year. The results were summarised in a report to the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee, which is reproduced as an appendix to this report.
Further information regarding the migratory population of the Borough, obtained from another
source, will be found on page 38 of this report.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Metropolitan Boroughs.

Table: The subjoined information, comparing the vital statistics for the metropolitan boroughs, has been supplied by Dr.W.Allan Young, Medical Officer of Health for Poplar:—1933.

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The subjoined information, comparing the vital statistics for the metropolitan boroughs, has been supplied by Dr.W.Allan Young, Medical Officer of Health for Poplar:—

1933.

Cities and Boroughs.	Resident Population.	Births Annual rate per 1,000 persons living.	Death-rate per 1,000 living.	Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births.
West Districts.
Paddington	141,900	13.41	13.36	85
Kensington	181,100	12.0	12.9	72
Hammersmith	131,400	13.9	12.9	65
Fulham	148,200	13.07	13.00	65
Chelsea	58,850	10.6	13.6	78
City of Westminster	126,300	8.7	12.4	68
North Districts.
St. Marylebone	94,080	9.71	12.2	56
Hampstead	90,380	9.6	11.0	38
St. Panoras	190,900	13.6	13.7	68
Islington	319,100	14.35	12.40	63
Stoke Newington	61,120	12.6	12.3	46
Hackney	214,300	14.0	11.5	50.6
Central Districts.
Holborn	36,050	9.49	13.48	70
Finsbury	66,640	15.1	12.8	50
City of London	9,830	7.7	10.9	65
East Districts.
Shoreditch	93,550	16.0	13.0	74
Bethnal Green	104,200	14.3	12.5	66
Stepney	219,100	15.1	12.9	65.3
Poplar	149,300	15.4	12.4	54
South Districts.
Southwark	164,700	14.2	13.9	63
Bermondsey	107,300	14.0	12.5	61
Lambeth	289,000	13.6	13.1	63
Battersea	154,000	14.7	12.49	49.49
Wandsworth	350,200	10.93	11.49	50
Camberwell	243,700	13.32	12.33	49
Deptford	102,800	14.8	12.1	54
Greenwich	97,830	13.7	11.9	66
Lewisham	221,100	12.2	10.2	39
Woolwich	146,200	12.6	11.18	62

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INQUESTS.
During 1933, 149 inquests were held on residents of the Borough, and 126 deaths were registered
after the issue of certificates by the Coroner under powers conferred by the Coroners (Amendment)
Act, 1926.

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Table: The subjoined information, comparing the vital statistics for the metropolitan boroughs, has been supplied by Dr.W.Allan Young, Medical Officer of Health for Poplar:—1933.

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