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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 1886

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

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2
to resort to the method hitherto adopted, viz., that of assigning
to the Parish a share of the deaths occurring in
Public Institutions throughout London, proportional to the
population of the Parish.
This plan is of course more accurate than the old one,
and may make a considerable difference in the corrected
death-rate, as indeed was the case during the year under
review.

Table: Table I.

Table I.

YEAR.Gross Total of Deaths.Deaths in Public Institutions.Proportional Share of Deaths in Public Institutions.Corrected Total of Deaths (52 weeks).Corrected Death-rate per 1,000 per annum (52 weeks).
18751,8675024601,72719.05
18761,8685733621,67518.20
18771,7295223831,59017.46
18782,0077413921,65818.17
1879 (53 weeks)2,0587594021,66918.25
18801,8557138471,48916.64
18811,9328123941,51416.91
18821,8677303611,49816.73
18831,8458293901,40615.70
1884 (53 weeks)1,8737693841,46016.30
Average during ten years, 1875 —18841,8906953881,56917.34
Year 18851,773766*4361,44316.11
Average during ten years, 1876 — 18851,8807713851,59217.15

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* Actual number, as shown in foot-note on next page.