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hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and in
other hospitals or places outside the Parish. But
such deaths are necessarily few, seeing that there is
in the Parish a large general hospital in good repute,
thus rendering it unnecessary for parishioners to
seek extra-parochial medical relief. Moreover, the
deaths, in the parish of persons who were not
parishioners but merely temporary sojourners in it
may be considered as counterbalancing to some
extent such deaths.
Bearing in mind the yearly increase of population
(not less than 1,000 a year), the subjoined figures,
showing the corrected number of deaths from all
causes in Paddington during each of the last five
years, will probably be more intelligible to some than
if expressed in the form of a death-rate :—
Year Corrected Number
of Deaths.
1877 1,706
1878 1,761
1879 1,939
1880 1,667
1881 1,679
During the year there were 382 deaths of infants
under one year, and 582 of children under five
years of age, representing respectively 22.8 and
34.7 per cent. of the total deaths in the Parish.
The rate of infantile mortality in Paddington was