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Hanover Square 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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for the first time. To compare the death-rate of 1886
with those of the years preceding 1885 it is necessary
to calculate it in a similar manner to that employed in
those years; viz.:—by using the proportional share of
deaths in Public Institutions in London, which I find was
only 367, instead of 435, our actual number. By this
method we should get a corrected total of 1,470 deaths,
equivalent to a corrected death-rate of 16.41 per thousand
per annum, which it will be noticed is but a trifle over the
death-rate of 1884, and is considerably lower than the
average of the 10 years 1876 to 1885.
Table IA.
N.B. —Those for 1877-1880 have been re-ealculated on the Revised Estimates of Population.
| 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty Large English Towns | 22.7 | 24.2 | 23.2 | 22.7 | 21.7 | *22.3 | *21.6 | *21.6 | *20.6 | *20.9 |
| London | 21.5 | 23.0 | 22.7 | 21.6 | 21.2 | 21.4 | 20.4 | 20.4 | 19.8 | 19.9 |
| St. George's, 1 Hanover sq, | 17.46 | 18.17 | 18.25 | 16.64 | 16.91 | 16.73 | 15.70 | 16.30 | 16.11 | 17.17 |
| * Twenty-eight towns. | ||||||||||
From Table Ia we see that the death-rate of London
proper, with an estimated population of 5,306,508, was 19.9,
being only 01 above that in 1885. That of the outer ring,
with an estimated population of 1,156,975, was 17.0 (almost
exactly the same as the death-rate of this Parish) being 0.5
lower than in 1884 and in 1885.
The death-rate of this Parish was lower than that of
either of the 28 largest English Towns, with the exception
of Brighton, which had a death-rate of only 17.1 (the same
as in 1885). The other Towns which came nearest to it
were the following:—