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St George (Westminster) 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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REPORT
ON
THE SANITARY CONDITION
OF THE
Parish of St. George, Hanover Square,
for the year 1888.
BY
W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D. (Oxon.), F.R.C.P. (Lond
Professor of Hygiene and Public Health in University College, London;
President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health; Honorary Corresponding
Member of the Royal Society of Public Health of Belgium;
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
(BEING HIS SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT.)
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. George,
HANOVER SQUARE.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish
during the 52 weeks ending December 29th, 1888, was 1817,
a larger number than in 1887, but smaller than the average
recorded during the preceding 10 years. Of these deaths,
however, 861 occurred in the Public Institutions in the
Parish, whereas the deaths of our Parishioners in the Public
Institutions in the Metropolis only amounted to 467, and
those in the extra Metropolitan Asylums to 15, making a