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Paddington 1933
[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 1,35.1 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.
* Registrar-General's estimates of resident population.
POPULATION.
Estimated Population.—The resident population of the Borough at the middle of 1933 was
estimated by the Registrar-General to be 141,900 persons, 1,700 fewer than the number for the previous
year. The following table shows the population distributed among the Wards in the proportions
recorded at the Census of 1931. All rates for 1933 quoted in this report are based on these figures.
The Borough 141,900
Wards—
Queen's 13,337
Harrow Road 24,942
maida vale 22,790
Town 7,057
Westbourne 24,725
Church 16,967
Lancaster Gaate,West 9,690
Lancaster Gate, East 9,714
Hyde Park 12,678
North Paddington
68,126
South Paddington
73,774
MARRIAGES.
According to provisional figures supplied by the Registrar-General 1,722 marriages were
solemnized in the Borough during 1933, being a rate of 24.3 persons per 1,000 of the population.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough during 1933 was 1,855. From this total it is
necessary to deduct 460 births which occurred to residents of other localities and to add 508 births
which occurred to Paddington residents outside the Borough. The corrected total of 1,903 births
thus obtained is equal to a rate of 13.41 per 1,000 of the population.
Of the 1,903 births, 943 were those of males and 960 those of females, and of these 114 males
and 130 females were illegitimate.