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The deaths were most numerous in the first and
least so in the third quarter of the year.
The subjoined statement shows the ratio of deaths
to the population, and the death rate per 1,000 in the
whole parish, and in its two sub-districts:—
Sub-Districts.
Population.
Deaths.
Ratio of deaths
to Population.
Rate per l,000.
St. John's
38,609
487
1 to 79.3
12.6
St. Mary's
66,612
1,368
1 to 48.7
20.5
Paddington
105,221
1,855
1 to 56.7
17.6
In 1875 the death-rate for London was23.7 per 1,000.
„ „ Edinburgh 23.7 „
„ „ Dublin 27.0 „
„ „ England & Wales 22.8 „
The death-rate for 1875 being 17.6 per 1,000
persons living, is below the average death-rate of the
preceding ten years 1865 — 74, which was 19.5, and is
lower than any death-rate during those years.
The low death-rate in St. John's, is in part due
to the circumstance that many of its inhabitants are
domestic servants, who, when seriously ill, are sent
to their friends, and whose deaths therefore (should
death supervene) do not figure in the returns of the
district.*
*In Paddington the ratio of deaths to the population, including the
two Hospitals, was 1 death to 52.8 persons, equal to a death-rate of 18.9
per 1,000.