[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George].
- Hanover Square (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
- Date:
- 1885
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![4 of the calculated number, the death-rate for the Parish would be 16.22 instead of 16.30 per thousand per annum. Of the 95 Parishioners who died in Public Institutions outside of the Parish, 19 were from Hanover Square Sub District; 11 from Mayfair; and 65 from Belgravia. Table Ia. Death-rates per 1,000 per annum. N.B.—Those for 1877-1880 have been recalculated on the Revised Estimates of Population. 1877. 1878. 1879. ]880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. Twenty Large English Towns 23.7 24.2 23.2 22.7 21.7 *22.3 *21.6 *21.6 London 21.5 23.0 22.7 21.6 21.2 21.4 20.4 20.3 St. George's, Hanover Sq 17.46 18.17 18.25 16.04 16.91 16.73 15.70 16.30 * Twenty-eight towns. The death-rate of London proper, with an estimated population of 4,019,361, was 20.3, the lowest death-rate for London on record—that of 1883 having been 20.4— and being nearly one per thousand lower than any previously recorded rate. The death rate of Greater London (estimated population 5,093,995) was the same as that of 1883, viz., 19.7 per thousand per annum, being 17.5 in the Outer Ring, and, as before stated, 20.3 in London proper; or, when corrected for the deaths in the three Middlesex County Lunatic Asylums, 17.1 in the Outer Ring. As usual, the death rate of this Parish was much lower than that of either of the 28 large English towns; the nearest to it were the following:—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18247465_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
