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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St George (Westminster) 1876

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

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68
deaths occurring in Public Institutions throughout London,
was only 362. To find our corrected total of deaths, we

Table: Additional Works not Estimated for.

Additional Works not Estimated for.

£s.d.
Paving and Lighting round Fountain in Park Lane11200
Raising the Level of Uxbridge Road (Portion of)40000
Park Street Excavation9120
Alteration to Horse Roller3000
Six new Stand Posts for Watering7200
Raising Portion of Grosvenor Road10000
Additional Supply of Granite, by Order of the Committee of Works1,50000
£2,30520

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must take the difference between 573 and 362, viz., 211
from 1868, which leaves 1,657, a lower corrected total than
either last year or the year before (See Table I a).
I estimate the population of the Parish at the middle of
the year 1876 at 90,833, which is to the estimated population
of London almost exactly as 1 to 38 2/5.
Our corrected death-rate has therefore been 18.2 per

Table: When this amount, therefore, is added to the estimate, viz.:—£4,614 6 s. 4d., making a total of £16,9198s.4d.,the actual amount spent over and above the estimate would be £1,123 1s. 9d.; thus:

When this amount, therefore, is added to the estimate, viz.:—£4,614 6 s. 4d., making a total of £16,9198s.4d.,the actual amount spent over and above the estimate would be £1,123 1s. 9d.; thus:

£s.d.
Actual 48,042101
£s.d.
Estimate44,61464
Extras2,30520
46,91984
£1,12319