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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT
Of the Medical Officer of Health.
To the Vestry of the Parish of Paddington.
Gentlemen,
During the fifty-two weeks of the registration year
ending Saturday, 1st January, 1887, 2,898 births and
2,065 deaths were registered in Paddington.
Births.
Of the 2,898 births, comprising 1,473 male and
1,425 female children, 2,366 —1,214 males and 1,152
females—were registered in St. Mary's, and 532—
259 males and 273 females—in St. John's Sub-district.
The proportion of the sexes of the children born in
the Parish during the year 1886 was 100 males to 97
females, whereas in the Metropolis it was 100 males to
96 females.
In St. Mary's Sub-district the proportion was 100
males to 95 females, and in St. John's 100 males to 105
females.
The births were most numerous during the first
and least so in the fourth quarter of the year.