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Paddington 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Deducting from the total deaths (578) those of 66 nonparishioners—58
in St. Mary's Hospital, 6 in the Children's
Hospital, Paddington Green, and 2 in the Lock Hospital —the
corrected number of deaths of parishioners in the parish is seen
to be 512. To this number must be added the deaths of 17
parishioners in extra-parochial hospitals and institutions, within
the Metropolis during the same period, making a total of 529
deaths — 241 males and 288 females—equivalent to an
annual death-rate of 18.7 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The number of births and of deaths, together with the birth
and death-rates in the parish, and in its two sub-districts, during
the quarter is shown in the subjoined table:—
TABLE II.
.
Sub-Districts.
Estimated
Population.
Births.
Birth-rate
per 1,000
of the
Population.
Deaths.
Death-rate
per 1,000
of the
Population.
St. Mary's
76,240
644
33.8
386
20.2
St. John's
36,958
121
13.08
143
15.5
Paddington
113,198
765
27.0
529
18.7
In London the death-rate for the quarter was 20.7
In Edinburgh 21.6
In Glasgow 28.0
In Dublin 31.0
In England and Wales 20.6
In Paddington 18.7

TABLE I.

S howing the B irths and D eaths in P addington, also the M ean T emperature in L ondonin each week of the First Quarter of the Year 1887.

Week endingBirths.Deaths.Mean Temperature (Fahrenheit).
St. Mary's.St. John's.St. Mary'sSt. John's.
Degrees.
January 8527421131.9
„ 154414261233.1
„ 226016321237.1
„ 2936725940.4
February 550819944.2
„ 12529161531.5
„ 1949825934.8
„ 2660941742.9
March 541922835.9
„ 12518281337.5
„ 19388331731.4
„ 26497401340.7
„ April 2621127844.0
„ Total64412138614337.6