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St George (Westminster) 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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91
REPORT
ON
THE SANITARY CONDITION
OF THE
Parish of St. George, Launder Square,
FOR THE YEAR 1883.
BY
W.H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D. (Oxon.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.),
Professor of Hygiene and Public Health
in University College, London,
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH AND PUBLIC ANALYST.
(BEING HIS TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT.)
Go the Vestry of the Parish of St. George,
HANOVER SQUARE.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The death.rate of this Parish for the year 1883
was lower than that of any previous year. This continual
lowering of the death.rate for the past few years shows, we
may most reasonably hope and believe, continued and progressive
sanitary improvement. It is, however, hardly
likely that so very low a rate will be maintained.