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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, in the13 Weeks ending IHth of September,1867.Average,29.

DEATHS registered in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in the

13 Weeks ending IHth of September,1867.Average,29.

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.—208.Little Chelsea Work.—350.St. George's Hospital, —216.Males, 37,511.Females, 50,236.Total, 87,747.
Parishioners.Non-Parishioners.
1. Order 1. 1. Small-pox..................................
2. Chicken-pox......................................
3. Measles..66.............6........336
4. Scarlatina246.........1..5........426
5. Dinphtheria..12.............2........112
6. Quinsy......................................
7. Croup124.............4........4...4
8. Sore Throat......................................
9. Whooping Cough336.........3..3........516
10. Typhus (and infantile fever) ...13411..2..4....12549
11. Erysipelas......1................1.....11
12. Metria......1..........1...........11
13. Pyæmia......51..............24336
14. Carbuncle......................................
15. Influenza......................................
16. Dysentery......................................
17- Diarrhoea28635.....5182301......202141
18. Cholera123.........1..2........213
19. Remittent Fever.......................................
20. Rheumatism......2..........2...........22
1. Syphilis1..1.............1........1...1
2. Stricture of Urethara Order 3........................................
1. Want of Breast Milk2...............2...........22
2. Alcoholisma Del. Tremens.......................................
b Intemperance...................1...........11
Order 4. 1. Thrush1..1...........1..............11
II. Order 1...................................
l. Gout.......................................
2. Dropsy.........11......2..11........4
3. Cancer....1242..1..4..1..21...9
4. Mortification..11.....1......1..1.......22
5. Abscess......111......11....1213
1. Scrofula1..3.........1..1..1....3...3
2. Tabes Mesenterica10516.....1..2..1311....9817
3. Phthisis..2112385..842411..9301747
4. Hydrocephalus359...........18........549
III. Order 1 1. Cephalitis.......................................
2. Apoplexy......13:H..2..41......5...7
3. Paralysis...........2......3........123
4. Epilepsy....1.........1................11
5. Convulsions5161......3..4........437
6. Brain Disease, Spine, &c. Order 2.114244..225....149514
1. Pericarditis............................11..1
2. Aneurism......11........1....1..112
3. Heart Disease, &c.2..24732218..12411718
4. Phlebitis Order 3.....................................
1. Laryngitis....................................
2. Bronchitis.........5513..63......8412
3. Pleurisy...........1......1........11
4. Pneumouia13731....117......25611
5. Asthama..................................
6. Lung Disease, &c3..321....1..32......6..6

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BIRTHS registered during 13 weeks.—Hanover Square, M. 55, F. 42; May Fair, M. 28, F. 35;
Belgrave, M. 215, F. 201. Total, 576. Average, 44*3.