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St George (Westminster) 1874
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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years of ago and upwards, or 27.2 per cent. of the gross
total of deaths—a very large proportion, as that for London
generally was only 21 6 per cent., while the average for the
18 largo towns was only 19.6, and the only one of these
towns in which the proportion of deaths of aged persons
was greater was Norwich, where it was as high as 32 per
cent. That is to say, that a very large proportion of persons
live to a great ago in this Parish, a fact that I have
several times commented on in my monthly Reports.