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The Parochial Workhouse and Infirmary are situate in the Harrow
Road near the Lock Hospital premises, its management being in
the hands of Eighteen Guardians, elected annually, together with the
resident Justices of the Peace. The Schools for the Workhouse
children are at Ashford, near Staines; Paddington having been
united by the Poor Law Board with St. George, Hanover Square, and
Fulham, to form a District called the West London School District.
The Cemetery for the Parish is at Willesden, and is managed by
a Board consisting of Nine Members appointed by the Vestry, such
Board meeting at the Vestry Hall on the first Thursday in each month.
For Registration purposes, Paddington has been divided by the
Registrar-General into the St. Mary's District and the St. John's
District. The divisional line of the two districts traverses the centre
of the road in Praed Street, from Edgware Road to the Canal Basin,
continues thence along the centre of the Canal Basin as far as the
Bishop's Road, and passes Westward from thence along the centre
of the Bishop's Road and Westbourne Grove to the Western
boundary of the Parish; the St. Mary's District lying on the North
and the St. John's District on the South of such divisional line.
For the purpose of providing the Parish with Public Baths and
Wash-houses, Commissioners have been appointed by the Vestry,
and Baths in the Queen's Road were opened in May, 1874, on the
site of premises formerly numbered 143 and 145.
The Gas consumed in Paddington is supplied by The Gas Light
and Coke Company, and the Water by two Companies, viz.:—the
Grand Junction Waterworks Company and the West Middlesex
Waterworks Company.

The number of inhabited houses being 13,231.