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Hanover Square 1868

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

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Table: DEATHS registered in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square,intha13Weeks ending 2Qth of June,1867.Average,87.

DEATHS registered in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square,intha13Weeks ending 2Qth of June,1867.Average,87.

DISEASES.Ages at Death.Sub-districts & population.Sexes.
Under 1.1 and under 5.Total under 20.20 and under 40.40 and under 60.60 and under 80.80 and above.Hanover.—19,770.May Fair.—12,648.Belgrave.—55,099.Mount-street Work.—268.Little Chelsea Work.—350.St. George's Hospital. —216.Males, 37,511.Females, 50,236.Total, 87,747.
Parishiouers.Non-Parishioners.
1.Order 1. Small pox......2..........11......2...2
2.Chicken-pox........................................
3.Measles..46.........1..4......1426
4.Searlatina..69...........18........369
5.Diphtheria1..1.........1.............1...1
6.Quinsy........................................
7.Croup..12.............2........112
8.Sore Throat.......................................
9.Whooping Cough2911..........110........3811
10.Typhus (and infantile fever)....1322..1..5......2448
11.Erysipelas1..1...11......1....11123
12.Mertria.......................................
13. Pyaemia......2..........1......1...22
14. Carbuncle.......................................
15. Influenza.....................................
16.Dysentery1..1............1......1...1
17.Diarrhœa426.........1..5........246
18.Cholera....1.............1...........11
19.Remittent Fever......................................
20.Rheumatism Order 2................1...........11
1. Syphilis2..2.............1..1....112
2.Stricture of Urethra Order 3......................................
1. Want of Breast Milk..................................
2. Alcoholism a.Del, Trenebs....121........1......344
b. Intemperance Order 4.........1........1........1..1
1. Thrush1................1........1..1.
11. Order 1. 1.Gout................11........2..2
2.Dropsy........441117........459
3. Cancer........35..1..41..........8
4. Mortification................1................
5. Abscess Order 2.....1321....11....14437
1. Scrofula....11....11..1......1213
2. Tabes Mesenterica1..1............1........1..1
3. Phthisis211030235..972911129383068
4. Hydrocephalus6101......117......26511
III. Order 1. 1. Cephalitis..................................
2. Apoplexy......1..11..261211..171320
3. Paralysis..................2............2
4. Epilepsy........3..141......4..6
5. Convulsions10......1......211............18
6. Brain Disease, Spine, &c., Order 2.441051....3..91..228..17
1.Pericarditis..1112....2..1......1224
2. Aneurism............................111
3. Heart Disease, &c.,......59....519..119121426
4. Phlebitis......1..................1..11
Order 3. 1. Laryngitis....1....................11..1
2. Bronchitis4133216..84232....1102238
3. Pleurisy......1............1........1..
4. Pneumonia66144......3117......2121123
5. Asthma................11........112
6. Lung Disease, &c.,28241213138210

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BIRTHS registered during 13 weeks.—Hanover Square, M. 43, F. 49; May Fair, M. 43, F. 34;
Belgrave, M. 237, F. 138. Total. 514. Average, 41*8.