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whole parish. In the foregoing four years successively
397, 450, 463, and 350.
District Mortality. The total number of deaths in
St. George's Hospital was 328. The number of nonparishioners
who died in St. George's Hospital was 243;
in the preceding year 263. The number of parishioners
who died there is 65; of whom 22 came from the Hanover
and May-fair, and 43 from the Belgrave Sub-districts.
In Mount-street Workhouse 69 persons died during
the year ended March 29th, 1862. During the preceding
four years the numbers were 88, 75, 72, and 96. In
Little Chelsea Workhouse 27 against 41, 33, 28 and 25.
If the 65 deaths of our parishioners in St. George's
Hospital and the 96 in Mount-street and Little Chelsea
Workhouses, equal 161, be compared with the total mortality
1,965, it will be seen that 1 person in every 12 who
died within the parish this year, died in a public institution.
In the Serpentine the deaths during the year have
been 3, 1 infant and 2 adults. In Hyde Park 5 dead
children have been found; 2 in the streets of the Hanover
and May-fair Sub-districts.
In the Hanover and May-fair Sub-districts the gross
total mortality during the year ended 29th March, 1862,
has been 570, including 69 in the workhouse, and 10 in
the parks and streets. The numbers for the preceding
five years in succession were 560, 605, 543, 567, and 534.
This would give a gross death rate of 17.5 per thousand
for this part of the parish, estimating the population as
stationary at 32,418. Thus, during the last five years,
the gross mortality of this part of the parish has fluctuated
from 16 to 17 and 18 per 1,000 per annum.
But we may divide this part of the parish into rich
and poor, and take first that group of aristocratic and