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Paddington 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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deaths which occurred in 1886 in the following extra
Parochial Hospitals and Institutions, are throughout
this Report dealt with in the same manner as if they
had actually taken place in the Parish, and are assigned
in the Tables to the Sub-district of St. Mary or St. John,
from which the deceased were admitted:—
BolingbrokeHouseHospital 1
Brompton ,, 8
Cancer, Fulham Road 1
Charing Cross „ 2
Children's(GreatOrmondSt) 4
Children's (Shadwell) 1
Convents' (Shoreditch) 1
French (Soho) „ 1
Guy's ,, 4
Homoeopathic ,, 1
Male Lock ,, 1
Middlesex „ 8
New Hospital for Women,
Marylebone Road 1
North London (Consumption)
1
Queen Charlotte's 4
Royal (Incurables) 1
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 2
St. George's Hospital 8
St. Thomas's ,, 2
Samaritan „ 1
South Eastern Fever 1
Temperance ,, 2
University College 2
Western (Fulham) 1
Westminster ,, 1
Bethnal House Asylum 13
British Home for Incurables 1
Camberwell House Asylum 1
City of London Union
Infirmary 1
Hoxton House Asylum 1
Peckham House 2
St. Giles' Workhouse 1
Westmoreland St.,Belgravia 1
During the year there were 430 deaths of infants
under one year, and 676 deaths of children under five
years of age, representing respectively 22.5 and 35.4
per cent. of the total deaths in the Parish.
The rate of infantile mortality in Paddington was
148 deaths to 1,000 registered births. In London the