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St George (Westminster) 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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68
REPORT
on
THE SANITARY CONDITION
OF
The Parish of St. George Hanober Square,
FOR THE YEAR 1878,
by
W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D. (Oxon.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.),
Medical Officer of Health
(Being his Seventh Annual Report).
To teh Vestry of the Parish of St. George,
Hanover Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The year 1878 has been a very healthy one, although
the mortality has been higher than the exceptionally low
rate of 1877.
Table I. shows that although the gross total of deaths
registered in the Parish, viz., 2,007, was considerably higher
than that in any one of the last ten years, with the exception
of 1870, when it was 2,030, this was owing to the unusually
large number of deaths which took place in Public Institutions
in the Parish, viz., 741.
I estimate the population of the Parish, at the middle