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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hanover Square 1894

Medical Officer's report for the year ended 29th December, 1894

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

Table II.

Deaths in Public Institutions in the Parish.

Parishioners.
Mayfair.Belgravia.Sub-District not stated.Non-Parishioners.
Fulbam Road Workhouse75651213
St. George's Union Workhouse...323
St. George's, Hospital10444323
Belgrave Children's ditto...4...6
Gordon Hospital for Cancer.........*1
Other Places in the Parish1368
Total in the Parish1811063554
In Public Institutions in London, outside of the Parish, and in the Extra Metropolitan Asylums329513...

Table: Table III.Death-rates per 1,000 per annum.

Table III.

Death-rates per 1,000 per annum.

1885188618871888188918901891189218931894
28 Large English Towns -20.620.920.819.219.321.322.3*20.7*21.6*18 .1
London19.819.919.613.518.321.521.420.621.317.8
Greater London19.219.318.917.817.320.119.819.319.716.5
St. George's, Plan over sq.16.1117.1716.0516.0514.1914.5614.6516.9715.3813.80

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*33 Towns.
From Table III, we see that the death.rate of London
proper amounted to 17.8, which "was lower by 2.6 than
the average rate in the previous ten years," and in fact the
lowest on record.
The death-rate of greater London with an estimated
population of 5,948,300, was 16.5, or over 3 per thousand
less than in 1893, and nearly 1 per thousand less than in
1879, when it was 17.3, the lowest rate previously recorded.
The death-rate of the 33 largest English towns was 18 .1,
which is 3.5 per thousand lower than that recorded for the