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 1886
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Table Ia.
| 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | ]880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
* Twenty-eight towns.
The death-rate of London proper (see Table Ia.), with
an estimated population of 4,083,928, was only 19.7 per
thousand per annum, the lowest death-rate yet recorded,
being 0.6 per thousand less than in 1884, and 1½ per thousand
less than in any year before 1883.
The death-rate of Greater London (estimated population
5,199,166) was also lower than in previous years, being
only 19.2 as against 19.7 in 1883 and 1884; in the Outer
Ring, with an estimated population of more than a million
persons, it was 175, the same as in 1884.
As usual, the death-rate of this Parish was decidedly
lower than that of either of the 28 largest English towns, the
nearest to it being the following :—
Brighton
Hull 17.2
Bradford 17.7
Derby 18.1
Birmingham 19.1
Birkenhead 19.5