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Short Summary of Births, Deaths, Vaccinations, and Sanitary
Statistics and Improvements, for One Year, from April 2nd
1859, to March 31st, 1860.
Births. The number of births in the whole parish
was 2,300 or 44.2 per week. In the two years ending
April 1, 1858 and 1859 respectively, the numbers were
2,165, or 41.6 per week, and 2,288, or 43.1 per week.
In the Hanover and May Fair Sub-Districts 710
births against 660 and 705 in the preceding two years;
in the Belgrave, 1,590, against 1,505 and 1,583 in the
preceding two years respectively.
Deaths. Gross number of deaths 1,837, or 35.3 per
week; during the two preceding years, 1,768, or 34 per
week, and 1,838 (in 53 weeks), or 34.7 per week.
District Mortality. The deaths of non-parishioners in
St. George's Hospital were 243, against 255 and 251 in
the last two years respectively. The deaths of parishioners,
73 against 56 and 63. Of the 73, 24 came from
the Hanover and May Fair, and 49 from Belgravia.
In Mount Street Workhouse 72 deaths, against 88
and 75; in Little Chelsea 28, against 41 and 33; in the
Orthopaedic Hospital 1 child.
The deaths in the Serpentine have been 5, viz., 4
suicides, and 1 drowning by the ice breaking. In Hyde
Park, 5, viz., 4 infants found murdered, and one which died
a natural death there; 1 murdered infant found in Bolton
yard.
In the Hanover and May Fair Sub-Districts, the
gross total mortality for four years has been respectively