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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 1962
[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 | £2,744,119 (£2,737,719) |
| Product of a penny rate (net) | £11,100 (£10,965) |
| Population (Registrar General's midyear home population) | 113,600 (113,980) |
| Number of dwellings (according to the Rate Books) | 31,613 (31,487) |
| Live Births Number | 2,670 (2,491) |
| Rate per 1,000 population | 22.62 (21.85) |
| Illegitimate Live Births per cent. of total live births | 25 (21) |
| Still Births Number | 43 (49) |
| Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths | 16(19) |
| Total Live and Still Births | 2,713 (2,540) |
| Infant Deaths (deaths under one year) | 70 (55) |
| Infant Mortality Rates Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births | 26 (22) |
| Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births | 25 (22) |
| Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 31 (23) |
| Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under four weeks per 1,000 total live births) | 21 (16) |
| Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under one week per 1,000 total live births) | 18 (15) |
| Perinatal Mortality Rate (still births and deaths under one week combined per 1,000 total live and still births) | 34 (34) |
| Maternal Mortality (including abortion) Number of deaths | 3(3) |
| Rate per 1,000 total live and still births | 1.1 (1.2) |
| Deaths from all causes | 1,248 (1,250) |
| Borough death rate (deaths per 1,000 population) | 10.99 (10.97) |
| Comparability factors—Births | 0.81(0.81) |
| Deaths | 1.00 (1.02) |
| England and Wales—Birth rate | 18.0 (17.4) |
| Death rate | 11.9 (12.0) |
| Marriages | 1,410(1,415) |