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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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Public Institutions have been included. The 100 deaths of parishioners—76 from St. Mary's Sub-district and 24 from St. John s —which occurred in 1890 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-districts from which the deceased were admitted:—
| Hospitals and Institutions. | Deaths. | Hospitals and Institutions. | Deaths. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brompton Hospital | 5 | Samaritan Hospital | l |
| Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road | 1 | University College Hospital | 2 |
| Western Fever Hospital | 1 | ||
| Chelsea Hospital for Women | 1 | Westminster Hospital | 2 |
| Ban stead Asylum | 1 | ||
| Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street | 1 | Bethlem House Asylum | 1 |
| Bethnal House Asylum | 2 | ||
| French Hospital | 1 | Chelsea Infirmary | 1 |
| German Hospital | 2 | Hanwell Asylum | 4 |
| Guy's Hospital | 1 | Hoxton House Asylum | 9 |
| Homoeopathic Hospital | 1 | Leavesden Asylum | 3 |
| King's College Hospital | 2 | London County Asylum, Hanwell | 2 |
| Lock Hospital, Dean Street | 1 | ||
| Metropolitan Asylum, Darenth | 2 | ||
| London Temperance Hospital | 1 | ||
| Peckham House Asylum | 2 | ||
| Middlesex Hospital | 4 | St. Pancras Infirmary | 1 |
| National Hospital for Paralysis | 1 | St. Peter's Home | 3 |
| St. Plagia's Creche, Islington | 1 | ||
| North London Hospital for Consumption | 1 | ||
| Wandsworth Infirmary | 1 | ||
| North-Western Fever Hospital | 19 | In Caledonian Road, Islington | 1 |
| Royal Free Hospital | 1 | In Edgware Road | 1 |
| Royal Hospital for Incurables | 1 | In Queen's Street, Marylebone | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 1 | On way to Hospital | 1 |
| St. Elizabeth's Hospital | 3 | In River Thames at Batter sea | 1 |
| St. George's Hospital | 7 | ||
| St. Peter's Hospital | 1 |
Daring the year there were 455 deaths of infants
under one year of age, 730 of children under five
years of age, and 497 of persons aged 65 years and
upwards.
The rate of infantile mortality in Paddington was
157 per 1,000 registered births. In London the rate
was 163, and in the 27 largest provincial towns it
ranged from 135 in Portsmouth to 241 in Preston.
Zymotic Diseases.
Small-pox caused no death in Paddington, nor did
any case come under the notice of the Sanitary
Department. In London only 4 deaths occurred, being
the fifth successive year in which London has been
practically free from the disease.
Measles caused 77 deaths—65 in St. Mary's and
12 in St. John's Sub-district—equivalent to an annual
rate of 0.65 per 1,000 inhabitants. In London the