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No. 2.
REPORT
ON The
HEALTH OF PADDINGTON
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING
CHRISTMAS, 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.
Rates levied
in 1866.
Area in
Statute Acres.
Persons to an
Acre.
Mortality from
all causes.
Rate of Mortality
per 1000.
Water supply.
93,365
£758,344
£8:1:8
Apr. 1/5
Oct. 1/7
3/- in £
1245
750
1720
17.4.
Grand
Junction.
West
Middlesex.
Vestry Hall; February, 1868.
The total number of deaths in the Parish during 13 weeks
ending December 28, amounts to 451—in this, 34 deaths in
St. Mary's Hospital, and 28 in the Workhouse are included—
representing a rate of mortality of 19.7 per 1000, or one
death to every 51.7 of the estimated population for 1866.
This is a low mortality in comparison with other parts of the
Metropolis and large Towns of the Kingdom. The births during
the same quarter were 585, or 25 per 1000 of the population.
Diseases of the Zymotic or Epidemic class amounted to 108,
just one less than the last summer quarter, or 22.4 per cent, of
the total deaths recorded. Diseases of the consumptive or
tubercular class were fatal to 72 persons. The deaths of young
children under 5 years of age, amount to 209, out of 451, or 46 .5
per cent. This is rather a high proportion.