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TO THE
Vestry of St. George, Hanover Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I. During the first quarter of the present year 528
deaths were registered in the parish; during the second
quarter 479; and now, during the third quarter, comprising
13 weeks, ending 25th September, 1858, 412 deaths have
been registered in the parish.
This number gives a weekly average of 31.6, which is
very slightly in excess of the average of the last 10 years.
The 412 deaths, include those of 49 non-parishioners in
St. George's Hospital, and of 7 inmates of Little Chelsea
Workhouse; so that the net mortality of the parish was
356 ; against which may be set the 528 births that occurred
during the same 13 weeks.
If we analyze the causes of death, we find, by comparison
with the corresponding quarter of 1857, that we
have lost fewer children this year by diarrhœa; 23 this
year, against 50 last year; and that the entire number of
deaths at all ages from diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera, is
less this quarter than it was last year, viz., 35 against 64.
Of the 35 deaths from diarrhoea, 24 occurred in Belgravia.
One death from small-pox occurred in Ebury Street; that
of a child of three months, unvaccinated, who was brought