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 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Derby 18.2
Hull 18.8
Birkenhead 19.1
Bradford 19.2
Bristol 19.3
Sunderland 19.5
Huddersfield 19.6
Sheffield 19.8
Birmingham 19.9
London 19.9
The average death-rate of the 28 largest English Towns
was 20.9, or nearly 4 per thousand higher than that of this
Parish. The highest death-rates among these Towns were
the following:—
Blackburn 25.5
Manchester 26.3
Preston 28.9
The average death-rate in 50 other large Town Districts
in England was 19.9, or exactly the same as the death-rate
of London proper. Of these the following had lower deathrates
than this Parish :—
Gloucester 14.7
Hastings 14.8
Barrow-in-Furness 15.2
Burton-on-Trent 15.2
Darlington 15.4
Southport 16.2
Rotherham 16.8
Reading 16.9
Accrington 17.0