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Persons are also encouraged to take their children to
St. George's Hospital for gratuitous vaccination, and 790
vaccinations have been performed there during the year.
I am of course unable to give any account of the
total number's of children vaccinated, or of persons revaccinated
throughout the parish.
Table III., which should contain a detailed account
of the diseases which have proved fatal during the year, is
absent from the report for the reason stated at the
beginning. The same remark applies to the Table which
should show the number of deaths from certain important
classes of diseases. I may state here that the number of
persons of 60 years of age and upwards who died during
the year was 469, or 25.2 per cent, of the gross total of
deaths, as against only 20.6 per cent, for London generally.
The number of deaths from violence was 84, equal to 4.5
per cent, of the total deaths, or to 9 per 10,000 inhabitants;
in London generally there were only 8 deaths
from violence per 10,000 inhabitants; our parish contains
one half of the Serpentine. There were 112 inquests held.
From Table IV. we see that, as usual, the birth-rate
and death-rate are different in the 3 Sub-districts into
which the parish is divided, Belgravia having the highest
rates, and May-fair the lowest; the death-rate in Belgravia,
including Pimlico, was, however, more than 3 per 1,000
per annum less than that of London generally, Avhile that
in May-fair was no less than 10.3 per thousand less than
the London general rate. These rates are all calculated
on the numbers corrected for the deaths in Public
Institutions throughout London, and this, while reducing
the rates of the other two Sub-districts somewhat, raises
that of Hanover-square. It will be observed that the
death-rate of the Hanover-square Sub-district is smaller
than its birth-rate, which was not the case last year.
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