[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:
1884
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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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    3 the Public Institutions of London was only 390. Thus our corrected total of deaths was only 1,406, or 208 less than the annual average for the preceding 10 years. This is equivalent to a death-rate of 15.70 per thousand per annum, the average during the preceding 10 years having been 17.71. 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. Twenty Large English Towns 22.7 24.2 23.2 22.7 21.7 *22.3 *21.6 London 21.5 23.0 22.7 21.6 21.2 21.4 20.4 St. George's, Hanover Square 17.46 18.7 18.25 10.64 16.91 16.73 15.70 * Twenty-eight towns. The death-rate of London proper with an estimated population of 3,955,814, was 20.4, the lowest death-rate on record in London ; that of the twenty-eight large English towns (including London) was 21.6. The death-rate of Greater London, estimated population 4,990,952, was 19.7 per thousand per annum (against 20.6 in 1882), being, as just stated, 20.4 in London proper, and 16.7 in the Outer Ring; or, when corrected for the deaths in the three Middlesex County Lunatic Asylums, only 16.2 in the Outer Ring. Not one of the twenty-eight large English towns had nearly so low a death-rate as this Parish ; the nearest to it are the following:— Bristol 17.9 Derby 18.1 Bradford 18.4 Portsmouth 18.6 Brighton 19.2 Leicester 19.4