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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

St George (Westminster) 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Table: Table I.

Table I.

YEAR.Gross Total of Deaths.Deaths in Public InstitutionsProportional Share of Deaths in Public InstitutionsCorrected Total of Deaths. (52 weeks).Corrected Death-rate per 1,000 per annum (52 weeks).
1879 (53 weeks)2,0587594021,66918.25
18801,8557133471,48916.64
18811,9328123941,51416.91
18821,8677303611,49816.73
18831,8458293901,40615.70
1884 (53 weeks)1,8737693841,46016.30
18851,773766*4361,44316.11
18861,900797*4351,53817.17
18871,727762*4731,43816.05
18881,817861*4821,43816.05
Average during ten years, 1879.18881,8657804101,48916.59
18891,664756*3631,27114.19
Average during ten years, 1880.18891,8257804071,45016.19

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* Actual numbers (not calculated as in former years).
* Deaths of Parishioners in Public Institutions :—
Fulham Road Workhouse 170
St. George's Union Workhouse 2
St. George's Hospital 57
Belgrave Children's ditto 4
St. Gabriel's ditto 11
Total in the Parish 244
In Public Institutions in London, outside of the Parish 87
In Extra Metropolitan Asylums 32
Total Deaths of Parishioners in Public Institutions 363
Table 1a.
Death-rates per 1,000 per annum.

Table: N.B.—Those for 1880 have been re-calculated on the Revised Estimates of Population.

N.B.—Those for 1880 have been re-calculated on the Revised Estimates of Population.

1880188118821883188418851886188718881889
28 Large English Towns*22 .7*21.722.321.621.620.620.920.819.219.3
London21.621.221.420.420.419.819.919.613.517.4
St. George's, Hanover sq,16.6416.9116.7315.7016.3016 1117.1716.0516.0514.19

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* Twenty towns.
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