[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square].

  • Hanover Square (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 Table I. shows that the corrected total of deaths, which is an absolute, and not merely a calculated number, was 1,334, or 22 above that for 1891, but 76 below the average for the previous ten years. Table Ia. Death-rates per 1,000 per annum. 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 28 Large Eng lish Towns- 21.6 21.6 20.6 20.9 20.8 19.2 19.3 21.3 22.3 *20.7 London 20.4 20.4 19.8 19.9 19.6 18.5 18.3 21.5 21.4 20.6 Greater Lon don 19.7 19.7 19.2 19.3 18.9 17.8 17.3 20.1 19.8 19.3 St. George's, Hanover sq. 15.70 16.30 16.11 17.17 16.05 16.05 14.19 14.56 14.65 16.97 *33 Towns. From Table Ia, we see that the death-rate of London proper amounted to 20.6, which was lower than the rates of the two preceding years by nearly 1 per thousand. The death-rate of greater London with an estimated population of 5,752,204, was 19.3, or rather less than in the preceding year, but nearly 2½ per 1,000 higher than the death-rate of this parish. The death-rate of the 33 largest English towns was 20.7, which is l.6 per 1000 lower than that recorded for the previous year for the 28 largest English towns. As usual the death-rate of this parish was lower than that of any one of the 33 largest English towns, with the sole exception of Croydon (15.8), the nearest to it being:-