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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 1884

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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TABLE I.
TABLE showing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
for the Year 1884, and 10 Years preceding.

Table: TABLE C.TABLE showing the efficiency of filtration of Thames and Lea water, also the maximum, minimum, and average proportions of organic impurity in the water delivered by the different Companies during the year1883.

TABLE C.

TABLE showing the efficiency of filtration of Thames and Lea water, also the maximum, minimum, and average proportions of organic impurity in the water delivered by the different Companies during the year1883.

Names of Companies and Sources.Number of occasions when clear and transparent.Number of occasions when slightly turbid.Number of occasions when turbid.Number of occasions when very turbid.Proportion of Organic Impurity.
Maximum.*Minimum. *Average. *
Thames.
West Middlesex111004.02.12.8
Grand Junction120005.32.22.8
Lambeth75004.82.02.8
Chelsea120004.62.22.8
Southwark102006.42.23.3
Lea.
New River120002.00.91.3
East London120004.61.72.8
Deep Wells.
Kent120001.30.50.8
Colne Valley120001.60.61.0
Tottenham120002.20.91.4

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Notes.
1. Population at Census, 1881, 107,218.
2. Area in Acres, 1,280.
3. Average No. of Persons in each House at Census, 1881, 8.1.
* For statistical purposes the Registrar-General estimates the population to
the middle of the year, on the basis of the rate of increase ruling between the
two preceding Census periods. The estimate of population may be checked by
the known number of inhabited houses, and by the average number of inmates
per house, as ascertained at the preceding Census.
** The deaths of non-parishioners in the public institutions (St. Mary's
Hospital, the Lock Hospital, and the Children's Hospital) within the parish are
deducted for the years 1877-1884, inclusive; for the years 1875 and 1876 the
total deaths in the above-mentioned institutions are deducted.