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Paddington 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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208 females,—and the annual death rate to be 13.3 per 1,000
inhabitants. In calculating the death rate no account is
taken of the deaths of parishioners in places outside the
parish; or, on the other hand, of the deaths of nonparishioners
in the parish, with the exception of those who
died in its public institutions. The recorded natural increase
of population from the excess of births over deaths was 332.
The population of the parish in the middle of the year, 1880,
is estimated at 115,731.
The number of births and of deaths, and the birth and
death rates in the two Sub-districts of the parish are shown
in the subjoined Table.

Table: TABLE I.Showing the Births and Deaths in Paddington, also the Mean Temperature in London in each week of the third quarter of the year 1880.

TABLE I.

Showing the Births and Deaths in Paddington, also the Mean Temperature in London in each week of the third quarter of the year 1880.

Week endingBirths.Deaths.Mean
St. Mary's.St. John's.St. Mary's.St. John's.Temperature
Degrees.
July 10472114859.0
„ 17431622563.1
„ 24421125463.7
„ 31351530762.2
Aug. 7421631460.2
„ 14451828663.8
„ 21441324563.8
„ 28391218862.7
Sept. 4251324967.3
„ 11411519862.8
„ 18391022555.7
„ 2551825756.4
Oct. 2411521656.6
Total5341833038261.3

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In London the death rate for the quarter was 21.3,
In Edinburgh 18.9,
In Glasgow 19.8,
In Dublin 34.6,
In England and Wales 20.4,
The total deaths in the parish from all causes during
the corresponding quarters of the years 1876-80 were as
under:—
Third quarter
of year.
Total
deaths.
1876
478
1877
437
1878
413
1879
372
1880
432