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Annual Report of Births, Deaths, Vaccinations, and Sanitary
Improvements, from March 27th, 1858, to April 2nd,
1859. (Fifty-three weeks.)
Births. The number of births in the whole parish was
2,288, or 43.1 per week. In the preceding year, 2,165, or
41.6 per week.
In the Hanover and May Fair Sub-districts 705 births
against 660 last year; in the Belgrave 1,583 against 1,505.
Deaths. Gross number of deaths 1,838, (in 53 weeks,)
or 34.7 per week; against 1,768 or 34 per week last year.
District Mortality. The deaths of non-parishioners in
St. George's Hospital were 251 against 255 last year; of
parishioners 63 against 56.
In Mount Street Workhouse, 75 against 88; in Little
Chelsea, 33 against 41; in the Serpentine and Hyde Park,
8 against 15.
In the Hanover and May Fair Sub-districts the gross
total of deaths during the last three years respectively has
been 560, 605, and 543; the weekly averages being 10.76,
11.63, and 10.26.
In the aristocratic and first-class business streets of these
Sub-districts, whose population in 1851 was, in round numbers,
20,000, the deaths in these three years were 216, 209,
and 192; or at the rate of 10.8, 1045, and 9.4 per 1,000
per annum (due correction being made for the odd number
of weeks).
* This is artificially low, in consequence of servants and
apprentices being sent home or to hospitals when very ill; and
of families going to the country.