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with the health of the people, of the highest importance,
and demanding their first consideration.
During the registration year of 53 weeks ending
3rd January, 1880, 2,912 births and 2,119 deaths
were registered in Paddington. In the annexed
tables 1,939 of these deaths are dealt with, the
remaining 180 being those of non-parishioners.
The recorded natural increase of the population
from the excess of births over deaths was therefore
973. Assuming, as in former years, a further
increase from the immigration of persons from other
parts of London and from the country, the population
in the middle of last year may be estimated
at 113,629, allowing 74,496 to St. Mary's, and
39,133 to St. John's sub-districts.
Of the 2,912 births, comprising 1,477 male and
1,435 female children, 2,180 were registered in the
sub-district of St. Mary's, and 732 in that of St. John's.
The proportion of the sexes was 100 males to
97 females—in the metropolis it was 100 males to
98 females.
In St. Mary's the proportion was 100 males to
96 females, and in St. John's 100 males to 97 females.
The births were most numerous during the first,
and least so in the third, quarter cf the year. The