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Paddington 1875
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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No. 31.
REPORT
ON THE
HEALTH OF PADDINGTON
FOR THE QUARTER ENDING
LADY-DAY, 1875,
BY WM HARDWICKE, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Estimated Population 105,184.
St. Mary's 66,456. St. John's 38,728.
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25th March, 1876.
| I. | Systematic Inspections. | Houses inspected with reference to their Sanitary condition. | 5,957 | ||
| Works executed | 1,304 | ||||
| Slaughter-houses under inspection during the year | 23 | ||||
| Cow houses ditto ditto | 13 | ||||
| Bake-houses ditto ditto | 83 | ||||
| Urinals and Urinal Nuisances under Inspection | 76 | ||||
| II. | Inspections consequent on Complaints | Houses or other Premises visited | 974 | ||
| 850 | |||||
The total deaths, and the death-rate, are this quarter higher
than usual. In the district of St. John's, the rich district of
squares and mansions, the deaths are actually more than the
births for the quarter—the death-rate being 22 per 1,000 of the
estimated population, with a birth-rate of only 17.04; if this
went on long there would soon be a decrease of the population,
but it is only a temporary event, owing to the severe cold of the
first week in January, and a few days in February, cutting oft'
the lives of many aged people, showing itself by increased
mortality some weeks following. Thirty-seven persons, upwards