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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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The death-rate of Edinburgh was 18.0 (exactly the same
as in 1888), that of Glasgow 24.8, and that of Dublin 25.7,
the two latter being higher than in 1888.
As usual the lowest death.rates in foreign cities are much
higher than the death.rate of this Parish, the nearest to it
being those of—
Baltimore 17.5
St. Louis 17.8
Brussels 19.4
The Hague 19.4
and the highest being—
Munich 31.0
Moscow 39.6
Madras 43.0
Alexandria 44.3
Cairo 50.5
Table II.
YEAR.
Registered
Births.
Birth.rate
per 1,000
per ann.
(52 weeks)
Deaths of Children under 1 Year.
Total.
Percentage to
Registered
Births.
Percentage to
Total Deaths
(uncorrected).
1879 (53 weeks)
2,168
23.26
298
13.75
14.48
1880
2,140
23.91
310
14.49
16.71
1881
2,092
23.36
280
13.38
14.49
1882
1,935
21.61
271
14.01
14.52
1883
1,878
20.97
287
15.28
15.56
1884 (53 weeks)
1,933
21.18
259
13.40
13.83
1885
1,767
19.73
219
12.39
12.35
1886
1,761
19.66
269
15.28
14.16
1887
1,749
19.53
275
15.72
15.92
1888
1,679
18.74
236
14.05
12.98
1889
1,670
18.64
234
14.01
14.06
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