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Paddington 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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No. 3
REPORT
on the
HEALTH OF PADDINGTON
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING
LADY-DAY, 1868,
BY WM HARDWICKE, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Printed by Order of the Vestry.
TABLE I.
| Estimated Population in 1867. | Annual Value of Property Assessed In 1866. | 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96,876 | £758,344 | £7:16:9 | Apr. 1/5 Oct. 1/7 3/- in £ | 1245 | 75.0 | 1735 | 17.4. | Grand Junction. West Middlesex. |
Vestry Hall; May, 1868.
The total number of deaths in the Parish during 13 weeks
ending March 28, amounts to 493, being 42 in excess of the
previous quarter; and if calculated upon the estimated population
of the Parish for 1867, will show per 1000 a mortality
of 20.0 per annum. The Births were 707 in the quarter.
The number of zymotic diseases this quarter is very small, viz.,
89—more than half of which, or 47, will be seen to arise
from measles and whooping-cough—diseases in young children
usually more prevalent and fatal in the winter months. No
case of small-pox was registered, but there were 9 deaths
from scarlatina. The cases registered as fevers (10) include
4 cases of gastric fever in children; typhus and typhoid
fevers are very little known. I am not aware of anything
approaching an epidemic during the quarter, which, upon the
whole, was unusually healthy.