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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 1863

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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18581860186018611862
Excess of Births over Deaths, 529 in the whole parish397450463350533

Table: The assumed increase of inhabitants in Belgravia is, we think, thus warranted.

The assumed increase of inhabitants in Belgravia is, we think, thus warranted.

Deaths in St. George's Hospital for the year ended18581859186018611863
28th March, 1863, 317 .311314316330308
Non-parishioners who died there, 253255251243263443
Parishioners who died there, 645663736765
From the Hanover and May-Fair sub-districts, 19——242722
From the Belgrave, 45——494043
Deaths in Mount-street Workhouse, 1008875729669
Deaths in Little Chelsea Workhouse, 264133282527

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If the 64 deaths of parishioners in St. George's Hospital
and the 126 in the Workhouses = 190, be compared
with the total mortality, 1882, it will be seen that nearly
one out of every ten of our parishioners who died in the
parish, died in a bed provided by public or private charity.
In the Hanover and May-Fair sub-districts the gross