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Hanover Square 1865

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

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TO THE
Vestry of St. George, Hanover Square.

Table: My Lords and Gentlemen,Our table of mortality shows that 451 deaths have been registered in the parish during this quarter, including those of 49 strangers in St. George's Hospital, and 4 inmates of the Little Chelsea Workhouse. Let us bring forward the mortality of the corresponding quarters of the foregoing eight years.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

Our table of mortality shows that 451 deaths have been registered in the parish during this quarter, including those of 49 strangers in St. George's Hospital, and 4 inmates of the Little Chelsea Workhouse. Let us bring forward the mortality of the corresponding quarters of the foregoing eight years.

Third quarter ofTotal deaths, St. George, Hanover Square.Total Zymotic.Deaths under L year.Deaths in Hanover and May-fair.Ditto, from Bowel Disorder.Deaths in Belgravia.Ditto, from Bowel Disorder.
1857 .4241151301061921243
1858 .41212577111921424
1859 .4401161121181723344
1860 .380798481719010
1861 .410104107109821527
1862 .4078075101419314
1863 .41810410493523126
1864 .45212898871125240
1865 .4511181211141424729

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In this hottest quarter of the year, diarrhoea and other
forms of bowel disorder usually occupy a prominent place, as
bronchitis does in the winter quarter. In addition to 14
deaths from those causes in the Hanover and Mayfair subdistricts,
and 29 in the Belgrave, one death occurred in