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REPORT
TO THE VESTRY OF PADDINGTON.
Vestry Hall;
June 1st, 1873.
Gentlemen,
I have herewith the honor of placing before
you my Sixth Annual Report, containing the vital and
Sanitary Statistics of the population under my observation.
I have followed the method hitherto adopted
of giving you (1) Returns of the Births and Deaths,
and (2) the Deaths from preventible diseases, and the
relative position they occupy amongst the general
mortality; and (3) Sanitary matters are brought
before you, which I trust may be briefly alluded to,
inasmuch as, under your control, they are calculated
either to arrest the progress of disease, or to give
increased comforts to the people. The population of
the Parish, estimated at the ordinary rate of increase
going on for several years, has now reached 100,984
up to April last; at the census it was 96,784, showing
an annual increase of 2100. This increase is made up