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Hanover Square 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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14
which is equivalent to the very low zymotic death-rate of
only 0'88, as against 110 in 1898, the rate for London being
2 22, and that for the 33 largest English towns 2'50. No
large town had as low a zymotic death-rate as this Parish,
the nearest to it being Halifax, with 1*32. and Croydon,
with 144.
The highest zymotic death-rates in the large towns were
those of Salford 3"98, Sheffield 433, and Preston 4 37.

Table: TableX.Deaths of Parishioners from the principal Infectious Diseases and from Diarrhoea and Influenza :—

TableX.

Deaths of Parishioners from the principal Infectious Diseases and from Diarrhoea and Influenza :—

Disease.1890.1891.1892.18981894.1895.1896.1897.1898.1899Average from 1890 to 1899.1900.
Small-Pox......000311001010
Jleasles4513482291032183518256
Scarlet Fever2612241081174696
Diphtheria...12192326182324201012199
Whooping Cough ...482119122025161316142011
Typhus Fever000000000001
Enteric(Typhd.)Fvr.598118891199911
Simple Contd. Fvr.210221000010
Diarrhoea ...293121281033162529302527
Cholera001000000000
Total14310013210898109108941048910971
Influenza27407513156771729393438

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Taking these diseases separately, according to the order
in which they are placed in Table X., we find that:—
Small-Pox caused no death in the Parish, and no deaths
of Parishioners in Public Institutions outside of the Parish.
Measles caused 6 deaths of Parishioners, or 19 less than
the average of the last ten years. It also caused 4 deaths
of Non-Parishioners in the Parish.
Scarlet Fever caused only 6 deaths of Parishioners, being
3 below the annual average.