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Paddington 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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prising 384 male and 364 female children, were equivalent to
an annual birth-rate of 27.6 per 1,000 of the estimated
population of the parish. Deducting from the total deaths
(621) those of 50 non-parishioners, in the two hospitals in the
parish, the corrected number of deaths is seen to be 571,—
273 males and 298 females,—and the annual death.rate to be
21.1 per 1,000 inhabitants. In calculating this death.rate,
no notice has been taken of the deaths of parishioners in
hospitals, institutions, or places outside the parish, or, on
the other hand, of the deaths of non.parishioners in the
Lock Hospital and in St. Mary's Hospital.
The number of births and of deaths, together with the
birth and death rates in the parish, and in its two sub.districts
during the quarter, is shown in the subjoined table:—

Table: TABLE I.Showing tee Births and Deaths in Paddington, also the Mean Temperature in London in each week of the first quarter of the year 1882.

TABLE I.

Showing tee Births and Deaths in Paddington, also the Mean Temperature in London in each week of the first quarter of the year 1882.

Week endingBirths.Deaths.Mean Temperature
St. Mary's.St. John's.St. Mary's.St. John's.
January 74813458Degrees. 43.9
„ 144214311043.9
„ 213617321236.2
„ 28461840936.8
February 44319391736.7
„ 114318331638.1
„18548321745.5
„ 254910331144.3
March 44011241237.9
„ 114516281348.1
„ 1831112013476
„ 255516261544.6
April 1321329646.6
Total56418441215942.3

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In London the death-rate for the quarter was 25.6
In Edinburgh 20.0
In Glasgow 25.3
In Dublin 35.1
In England and Wales 21.6
The corrected number of deaths in the parish from all