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The following table shows the deaths and death-rates during each of the last five years in England
and Wales, in London, in Paddington and in each of the wards of the Borough :—
1925.
1924.
Death-rates.
No. of
Deaths.
Deathrates.
No. of
Deaths.
Deathrates.
1923.
1922.
1921.
England and Wales
473,006
12.2
472,715
12.2
11.6
12.8
12.1
London
53,594
11.7
55,887
12.2
11.4
13.5
12.5
Paddington
1,780
12.10
1,920
13.11
11.77
12.99
12.07
Wards.
Queen's Park
183
11.39
191
11.94
10.71
12.03
11.19
Harrow Road
303
10.80
351
12.57
12.09
12.70
12.35
Maida Vale
267
11.84
279
12.43
12.72
13.07
12.64
Westbourne
344
13.99
371
15.16
12.97
14.21
14.34
Church (including Town)
375
14.73
400
15.79
12.69
15.51
12.46
Lancaster Gate, West
100
10.28
102
10.54
9.62
9.68
10.49
Lancaster Gate, East
77
9.25
82
9.90
9.06
10.21
7.89
Hyde Park
131
10.57
144
11.68
9.99
11.60
10.27
The following table shows the course of the death-rate in the Borough in the past:—
DEATH-RATES—PADDINGTON.
1881-1885
16.23
1886 -1890
16.19
1891-1895
17.17
1896-1900
15.51
1901-1905
15.33
1906-1910
14.52
1911-1915
14.06
1916-1920
14.62
1921
12.07
1922
12.99
1923
11.77
1924
13.11
1925
12.10
Deaths in Institutions.
Local.
1924.
1925.
Total
Nonresidents,
Total
Nonresidents,
Paddington Infirmary
563
29
544
28
St. Mary's Hospital ...
251
182
278
198
Paddington Green Children's Hospital
70
50
55
39
Hospital for Women and Children (Lock
Hospital)
11
10
12
12
St. Luke's Hospital*
133
124
223
209
1,028
395
1,112
486
Deduct Non-residents
395
486
633
626
*Opened January, 1924.
Paddington Residents.
Outlying. 1924. 1925.
Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board 29 16
Poor Law Institutions 31 30
Lunatic Asylums 56 76
Voluntary Hospitals (General) 77 94
,, ,, (Special, including Sanatoria) 56 33
249 249
Total Deaths of Paddington residents in institutions 882 875
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During the year 1924 there were 2,505 births and 196 deaths of children under the age of twelve
months in the Borough. These figures give an infantile mortality-rate (deaths of infants under
12 months to each 1,000 births) of 78.
The corresponding figures for the year 1925 are 2,337 births, 170 deaths and an infantile mortalityrate
of 72.