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HAN 39
REPORT
ON
Sanitary condition
0F THE
Parish of St. George, Hanover Square,
FOR THE YEAR 1889,
BY
W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D. (Oxon.), F.R.C.P. (LonK)
Professor of Hygiene and Public Health in University College, London; Past
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 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT)
To the Vestry of the Parish of Saint George,
HANOVER SQUARE.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish
during the 52 weeks ending December 28th, 1889, was
1664, a much smaller number than any registered in the
Parish during the preceding ten years, and 201 less than
the annual average during those ten years. Of these deaths
756 occurred in Public Institutions in the Parish, whereas
the deaths of our Parishioners in Public Institutions in the
Metropolis only amounted to 331, and those in the extra
Metropolitan Asylums to 32, making a total of 363 deaths
of Parishioners in Public Institutions outside the Parish, so
that the corrected total of deaths of our Parishioners was only
1271, or over 200 less than the average during the preceding
10 years, and equivalent to a corrected death-rate of only
14.19 per thousand per annum, which is nearly 2½ per
thousand per annum lower than the average annual deathrate
during the preceding ten years.