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The Parochial Workhouse is situated in the Harrow Road
near the Lock Hospital premises, its management being in the
hands of Eighteen Guardians, elected annually, together with the
resident Justices of the Peace. The Schools for the Workhouse
children are at Ashford, near Staines; Paddington having been
united by the Poor Law Board with St. George, Hanover Square,
and Fulham, to form a District called the West London School
District.
The Cemetery for the Parish is at Willesden, and is managed by
a Board consisting of Nine Members appointed by the Vestry, such
Board meeting at the Vestry Hall on the first Friday in each month.
For Registration purposes, Paddington has been divided by the
Registrar General into the St. Mary's District and the St. John's
District. The divisional line of the two districts traverses the
centre of the road in Praed Street from Edgware Road to the
Canal Basin, continues thence along the centre of the Canal Basin
as far as the Bishop's Road, and passes Westward from thence
along the centre of the Bishop's Road and Westbourne Grove to
the Western boundary of the Parish ; the St. Mary's District
lying on the North, and the St. John's District on the South of
such divisional line.
For the purpose of providing the Parish with Public Baths
and Wash-houses, Commissioners have been appointed by the
Vestry, and Baths in the Queen's Road were opened in May, 1874,
on the site of premises formerly numbered 143 and 145.
The Gas consumed in Paddington is supplied by The Gas Light
and Coke Company, and the Water by two Companies, viz. :—
the Grand Junction Waterworks Company and the West Middlesex
Waterworks Company.
The number of inhabited houses being 11,874.