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Ward No. 2a West:—All that portion of the Ward lying
North of a line drawn along the centre of Sutherland Avenue
from Harrow Road to Shirland Road, and West of a line drawn
along the centre of Shirland Road from Sutherland Avenue to
Kilburn Park Road.
Ward No. 2b:—All that portion of the Ward lying South
of the line of the Grand Junction and Regent Canals from Maida
Vale to Lock Bridge, Harrow Road.
The population of Paddington, at the Census taken in 1881,
was as follows, viz.:—
Ward No. 1 27,921
„ „ 2 45,879
„ 3 17,918
„ „ 4 15,500
Making a total of 107,218
The number of inhabited houses was 13,231.
In 1852 the Vestry resolved to erect a new building for the
purposes of the Parish, and in 1853 the Vestry Hall in the
Harrow Road was opened.
In 1870 Paddington and the parishes of St. Marylebone,
St. Pancras, and St. John, Hampstead, were formed into one of
the Metropolitan Districts for the purposes of the Elementary
Education Act (33 and 34 Victoria, cap. 75), under the name of the
Marylebone Division of the School Board for London, which
Division returns Seven Members to the School Board.
In 1871 Paddington adopted the Baths and Wash-houses
Act (9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 74), and the Baths and Wash-houses
erected in the Queen's Road, on the site of premises formerly
numbered 143 and 145 were opened to the public in 1874. The
Baths and Wash-houses are under the management of Nine
Commissioners appointed by the Vestry.