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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Paddington 1882

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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comprising 371 male and 349 female children, 54G occurred
in St. Mary's and 174 in St. John's sub-district. The 720
births were equivalent to an annual rate of 26.6 per 1,000
of the estimated population of the parish.
Deducting from the total deaths (466) those of 42 nonparishioners,
in the two hospitals in the parish, the corrected
number of deaths is seen to be 424—282 males and 192
females—and the annual death rate to be 15.7 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 of the deaths of nonparishioners
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.Snowing the Births and Deaths in Paddington, also the Mean Temperature in London in each week of the second quarter of the year 1882.

TABLE I.

Snowing the Births and Deaths in Paddington, also the Mean Temperature in London in each week of the second quarter of the year 1882.

Week endingBirths.Deaths.Mean Temperature (Fahrenheit)
St. Mary's.St. John's.St. Mary's.St. John's.
April 8564299Degrees. 47.6
,, 154517291547.6
,, 22448301049.9
,, 295713271046.5
May 64113251152.0
,, 134512211153.7
,, 20311824550.7
,, 27401623757.6
June 3341217958.5
,, 10421516956.2
,, 17481725653.1
,, 24271321957.3
July 1361621559.9
Total54617430811653.1

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In London the death rate for the quarter was 19.5
In Edinburgh 20.5
In Glasgow 25.7
In Dublin 26.8
In England and Wales 19.0