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REPORT
ON
THE SANITARY CONDITION
of the
Parish of St. George, Hanover Square,
FOR THE YEAR 1893,
BY
W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D. (Oxon), F.R.C.P. (Lond.),
Professor of Hygiene and Public Health in University College, London; Past President of
the Society of Medical Officers of Health ; Honorary Member of the Society of Hygiene of
France ; Honorary Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Public Health of Belgium;
of the Imperial Society of Medicine of Constantinople; and of the Royal Society of Hygiene
of Italy; Fellow of the Medical Society of Sweden.;
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
(BEING HIS TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT)
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. George,
Hanover Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish
during the 52 weeks ending December 30th, 1893, was
1716, against an average of 1821 during the preceding
ten years. Of these deaths 654 were those of NonParishioners,
(Table II), leaving 1,062 deaths of Parishioners.
To these however must be added 155 deaths of our
Parishioners in Public Institutions in the Metropolis
outside of the Parish and in the extra Metropolitan
Asylums, so that the corrected total of deaths of our
Parishioners was only 1,217, or 178 less than the average
during the preceding ten years. (See Table I).
In my last Annual Report I explained the manner in
which I estimated the population for the middle of the
year 1892 ; applying the same method, I calculate that the
population of the Parish at the middle of 1893, was as
follows:-
Mayfair - - 23,291
Belgravia - - 55,592
Whole Parish - - 78,883