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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Paddington 1872

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: TABLE V.Showing the Births and Deaths , and the Birth Rate and Death Rate , with the chief causes of Death, and ages of Death, for the last six years in the Parish of Paddington.

TABLE V.

Showing the Births and Deaths , and the Birth Rate and Death Rate , with the chief causes of Death, and ages of Death, for the last six years in the Parish of Paddington.

186818691870Census year 187118721873
Estimated and Actual Population90,48492,58494,68496,78498,884100,984
Births during each year2,6622,7842,7202,6872,8352,818
Deaths ,, ,,1,7351,7361,8971,9061,8341,836
Birth-Rate per 1000 of Population30.330.529.4127.729.528.3
Death-Rate „ „19.1818.620.019.718.518.17
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases374325369386334279
,, „ Tubercular „300281322323303314
„ „ other Diseases1,0611,1301,2061,1971,1971,130
„ of Children under 5 years793650718768724706
„ of persons between 5 & 20129140155169116105
,, ,, ,, 20 „ 40225299282317288269
,, ,, ,, 40 ,, 60260282320296304334
,, ,, „ 60 ,, 80206290334293325332
„ „ upwards of 80627588637790

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A progressive improvement is at once visible.
Thus, with a constant annual addition of about 2000
to the population, the death-rate rather tends to
diminish. And those forms of disease which we might
naturally expect would increase with the increase of
population, are stationary, indeed infantile deaths are
rather lower every year, except 1869. The zymotic
deaths are decreasing every year. It is also apparent
that larger numbers of persons are living at middle
and advanced ages.
The above figures include all deaths in Hospitals and
Workhouse Persons from other parts coming into the
Hospital to die have not even been excluded from
the calculation.