London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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of the calculated number, the death-rate for the Parish
would be 16.22 instead of 16.30 per thousand per annum.
Of the 95 Parishioners who died in Public Institutions
outside of the Parish, 19 were from Hanover Square SubDistrict;
11 from Mayfair; and 65 from Belgravia.
T able I a.
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. | 1884. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty Large English Towns | 23.7 | 24.2 | 23.2 | 22.7 | 21.7 | *22.3 | *21.6 | *21.6 |
| London | 21.5 | 23.0 | 22.7 | 21.6 | 21.2 | 21.4 | 20.4 | 20.3 |
| St. George's, Hanover Sq | 17.46 | 18.17 | 18.25 | 16.04 | 16.91 | 16.73 | 15.70 | 16.30 |
* Twenty-eight towns.
The death-rate of London proper, with an estimated
population of 4,019,361, was 20.3, the lowest death-rate
for London on record—that of 1883 having been 20.4—
and being nearly one per thousand lower than any previously
recorded rate.
The death rate of Greater London (estimated population
5,093,995) was the same as that of 1883, viz., 19.7 per
thousand per annum, being 17.5 in the Outer Ring, and, as
before stated, 20.3 in London proper; or, when corrected
for the deaths in the three Middlesex County Lunatic
Asylums, 17.1 in the Outer Ring. As usual, the deathrate
of this Parish was much lower than that of either of
the 28 large English towns; the nearest to it were the
following:—