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Deaths.
The total number of deaths registered in Paddington
during the year was 2,142. Of this number, 255
were of non-parishioners who died in St. Mary's Hospital,
46 were of non-parishioners who died in the
Children's Hospital, and 3 were of non-parishioners
who died in the Lock Hospital, making a total of 304
non-parishioners who died in the parish.
Deducting these non-parishioners, it will be seen
that 1,838 parishioners died actually in Paddington.
To this number must be added the deaths of 78
parishioners in extra-parochial hospitals and public
institutions, making a corrected total of 1,916—906
males and 1,010 females—equivalent to an annual
death-rate of 16.6 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The natural increase of population from the excess
of births over deaths was 927 as compared with 1,131
in the previous year.
Of the 1,916 deaths, 1,472 occurred in St. Mary's
and 444 in St. John's Sub-district. The deaths in St.
Mary'a include 81—40 males and 41 females—in the
Workhouse, and 126—72 males and 54 females in
the Paddington Infirmary.
The deaths were most numerous during the first,
and least so in the second quarter of the year.
The following table shows the ratio of deaths to
the population, together with the death-rate per 1,000