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the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and in other hospitals
or places outside the Parish.
Bearing in mind the yearly increase of population
(more than 1,000 a-year), the subjoined figures,
showing the corrected number of deaths from all
causes in Paddington during each of the last six
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
1882 1,766
During the year there were 396 deaths of infants
under one year, and 663 of children under five
years of age, representing respectively 22.4 and
37.5 per cent, of the total deaths in the Parish.
The rate of infantile mortality in Paddington was
136 deaths to every 1,000 registered births. In
London the rate was 151, and in the 19 largest
provincial towns it ranged from 142 in Portsmouth
and Bristol to 192 in Leicester.
Zymotic Diseases.
The Registrar-General remarks that "the most
notable fact in regard to these diseases was the
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