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Hanover Square 1893

Medical Officer's report for the year ended 30th December, 1893

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Table: Table II.Deaths in Public Institutions in the Parish.

Table II.

Deaths in Public Institutions in the Parish.

Parishioners,Non-Parishioners.
Mayfair.Belgravia.Sub-District not stated.
Fulham Road Workhouse966246264
St. George's Union Workhouse228
St. George's Hospital23763360
Belgrave Children's ditto86
St. Gabriel's ditto 0
Other Places in the Parish5116
Total in the Parish2915352654
In Public Institutions in London, outside of the Parish, and in the Extra Metropolitan Asylums2310626

Table: Tableiii.Death-rates per1,000per annum.

Tableiii.Death-rates per1,000per annum.

1884188518861887188818891890189118921893
28 Large English Towns21.620.620.920.819.219.321.322.3*20.7*21.6
London20.419.819.919.613.518.321.521.420.621.3
Greater London19.719.219.318.917.817.320.119.819.319.7
St. George's, Hanover sq.16.3016.1117.1716.0516.0514.1914.5614.6516.9715.38
*33 Towns.

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From Table III, we see that the death-rate of London
proper amounted to 21.3, which "was 1.2 per thousand in
excess of the average rate in the previous five years, having
been raised considerably by the mortality from Diphtheria
and Influenza."
The death-rate of greater London with an estimated
population of 5,849,707, was 197, or rather higher than in
the preceding year, and exactly equal to the average of
the previous three years, but nearly 4.3 per thousand higher
than the death-rate of this parish.