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St George (Westminster) 1875
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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I estimate the population of these Sub-districts, at
the middle of the year 1875, as follows:—Hanover square,
18,215; May-fair, 13,080; and Belgravia, 59,303; total,
90,628, as before stated.
Table IV.
| SUB-DISTRICT | Births. | Birth-rate- | Total Deaths. | Deaths corrected. | Death-rate corrected. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanover-square | 375 | 20.55 | 264 | 335 | 18.36 |
| May-fair | 219 | 16.74 | 233 | 175 | 13.4 |
| Belgravia | 1597 | 26.93 | 1365 | 1217 | 20.52 |
| 2191 | 24.12 | 1867 | 1727 | 19.05 |
The number of deaths in each quarter was, 1st
quarter, 581; 2nd quarter, 412; 3rd quarter, 378; 4th
quarter, 466; so that, as with the births (Table II.), the
highest number occurred in the first, and the lowest in
the third quarter. During March there were more births
(230), and more deaths (232) than during any other
month.
Table V. shows that the number of deaths from the
principal infectious diseases and from diarrhoea, 227, was
larger than the numbers for the two previous years; almost
the same as in 1872, and less than the average of the last
seven years; there were, as in 1874, no deaths from smallpox,
but the deaths from all these diseases, except diarrhoea,
were considerably more numerous in 1875 than in 1874, or
in 1873.
Measles was epidemic during the year and caused 30
deaths, the average number during the previous seven years
being 24.1.