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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
Hanover Square 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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the Public Institutions of London was only 390. Thus our
corrected total of deaths was only 1,406, or 208 less than
the annual average for the preceding 10 years. This is
equivalent to a death-rate of 15.70 per thousand per annum,
the average during the preceding 10 years having been
17.71.
Table Ia.
Death-rates per 1,000 per annum.
n.b __Those for 1877-1880 have been recalculated on the Revised
Estimates of Population.
| 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | ]880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty Large English Towns | 22.7 | 24.2 | 23.2 | 22.7 | 21.7 | *22.3 | *21.6 |
| London | 21.5 | 23.0 | 22.7 | 21.6 | 21.2 | 21.4 | 20.4 |
| St. George's, Hanover Square | 17.46 | 18.7 | 18.25 | 10.64 | 16.91 | 16.73 | 15.70 |
* Twenty-eight towns.
The death-rate of London proper with an estimated
population of 3,955,814, was 20.4, the lowest death-rate on
record in London ; that of the twenty-eight large English
towns (including London) was 21.6.
The death-rate of Greater London, estimated population
4,990,952, was 19.7 per thousand per annum (against 20.6
in 1882), being, as just stated, 20.4 in London proper, and
16.7 in the Outer Ring; or, when corrected for the deaths
in the three Middlesex County Lunatic Asylums, only 16.2
in the Outer Ring.
Not one of the twenty-eight large English towns had
nearly so low a death-rate as this Parish ; the nearest to it
are the following:—
Bristol 17.9
Derby 18.1
Bradford 18.4
Portsmouth 18.6
Brighton 19.2
Leicester 19.4