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No. l.
REPORT
ON THE
HEALTH OF PADDINGTON
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING
MICHAELMAS, 1867,
BY WM HARDWICKE, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Printed by Order of the Vestry.
TABLE I.
Statistics of the Parish of Paddington for 1866.
Estimated
Population
in 1866.
Annual Value of
Property Assessed.
Annual Value of
Property per head.
Kates levied
in 1866.
Area in
Statute Acres.
Persons to an
Acre.
Mortality from
all causes.
Rate of Mortality
per 1000.
Water supply.
93,365
£758,314
£8:1:8
Apr. 1/5
Oct. 1/7
3/- in £
1245
75.0
1720
17.4.
Grand
Junction.
West
Middlesex.
Vestry Hall; October, 1867.
The number of deaths in the Parish of Paddington during the
last 13 weeks ending September 29, amounts to 426, being 27 in
excess of the corresponding quarter of last year, but less than
the first two quarters of this. This number represents a rate of
mortality at 18.25 per 1000 of the estimated population for
1866. The rate of mortality for London the last week of
September was 20 per 1000, while other large towns varied from
22 to 40 per 1000 of their populations.
The births during the quarter were 696 (an excess of 170
over the deaths), the birth rate being about 29.8 per 1000 of
the population.
The deaths from Zymotic diseases in this parish were 109;
of these, 89 were in Children under 5 years of age,—a
high mortality amongst young children. Zymotic diseases
account for nearly one-fourth of the deaths, or 23 per cent. of
the total deaths.
As will be hereafter mentioned, when information of death
or disease of the zymotic character was received, inspection
followed, with a view of detecting any unsanitary condition of
house or premises.