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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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it includes the deaths of our Parishioners in the Extra
Metropolitan Asylums, of which I now receive quarterly
returns from the Registrar General.
Table 1a.
N.B. —Those for 1879 and 1880 have been re-calculated on the Revised Estimates of Population.
| 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Large English Towns- | *23.2 | *22.7 | *21.7 | 22.3 | 21.6 | 21.6 | 20.6 | 20.9 | 20.8 | 19.2 |
| London | 22.7 | 21.6 | 21.2 | 21.4 | 20.4 | 20.4 | 19.8 | 19.9 | 19.6 | 13.5 |
| St. George's, Hanover sq. | 18.25 | 16.64 | 16.91 | 16.73 | 15.70 | 16.30 | 16.11 | 17.17 | 16.05 | 16.05 |
* Twenty towns.
From Table Ia we see that the death-rate of London
proper was 18.5 and that of the 28 large English Towns
19.2, both being the lowest rates on record, while that of
greater London, with an estimated population of 5,527,886
persons, was 17.8 per thousand per annum, or nearly 2 per
thousand above that of our Parish.
The death-rate of this Parish was lower than that of
either of the 28 largest English Towns, the nearest to it
being the following:—
Brighton 161
Derby 16.3
Hull 16.4
Bristol 16.9
Bradford 17.1
Nottingham 17.3
Birmingham 17.8
Birkenhead 17.8
Sunderland 18.1
Leicester 18.3