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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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VITAL STATISTICS
| Area of Borough (including 20 acres of waterways) | 1,356 acres |
| Rateable Value | £2,527,410 (£2,425,469) |
| Product of a penny rate (net) | £10,420 (£9,700) |
| Population (Registrar General's midyear home population) | 113,400 (115,700) |
| Number of dwellings (according to the Rate Books) | 31,839 (31,823) |
| Live Births Number | 2,288 (2,334) |
| Rate per 1,000 population | 20.18 (20.17) |
| Illegitimate Live Births per cent. of total live births | 18 (18) |
| Still Births Number | 44 (51) |
| Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths | 19 (21) |
| Total Live and Still Births | 2,332 (2,385) |
| Infant Deaths (deaths under one year) | 51 (51) |
| Infant Mortality Rates Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live | |
| births | 22 (22) |
| Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births | 22 (20) |
| Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 24 (29) |
| Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under four weeks per 1,000 total live births) | 17 (19) |
| Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under one week per 1,000 total live births) | 15 (16) |
| Perinatal Mortality Rate (still births and deaths under one week combined per 1,000 total live and still births) | 33 (37) |
| Maternal Mortality (including abortion) Number of deaths | 2(3) |
| Rate per 1,000 total live and still births | 0.9 (1.3) |
| Deaths from all causes | 1,227 (1,335) |
| Borough death rate (deaths per 1,000 population) | 10.82 (11.54) |
| Comparability factors—Births | 0.80 (0.80) |
| Deaths | 1.03 (1.05) |
| England and Wales—Birth rate | 16.5 (16.4) |
| Death rate | 11.6(11.7) |