London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hanover Square 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
This page requires JavaScript
| YEAR. | A. Persons aged sixty years and upwards | B. Violence. | C. Inquest Cases. | D. Uncertified | Percentages to Gross Total of Deaths. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | B. | C. | D. | |||||
| 1879 | 625 | 89 | 120 | - | 30.37 | 4.32 | 5.8 | - |
| 531 | 97 | 126 | — | 28.63 | 5.23 | 6.8 | — | |
| 1881 | 582 | 107 | 129 | 31 | 30.12 | 5.54 | 6.7 | 1.60 |
| 1882 | 525 | 80 | 102 | 29 | 28.12 | 4.29 | 5.5 | 1.55 |
| 537 | 93 | 126 | 27 | 29.11 | 5.05 | 6.8 | 1.46 | |
| 1884 | 543 | 106 | 132 | 31 | 5.66 | 7.0 | 1.66 | |
| 1885 | 557 | 79 | 106 | 22 | 31.42 | 4.46 | 6.0 | 1.25 |
| 1886 | 604 | 79 | 135 | 41 | 31.79 | 4.16 | 7.1 | 2.15 |
| 521 | 88 | 122 | 20 | 30.17 | 5 09 | 7.0 | 1.15 | |
| 1888 | 541 | 90 | 124 | 22 | 29.77 | 4.95 | 6.8 | 1.21 |
| 523 | 77 | 116 | 30 | 31.43 | 4.63 | 1.80 | ||
| 1890 | 94 | 130 | 22 | 32.73 | 4.73 | 6.5 | 1.10 | |
| London 1890 | 21,885 | 3,088 | 6,631 | 821 | 23.99 | 3.38 | 7.3 | 0.9 |
From Table III. it appears that there were 650
registered deaths of persons aged 60 years and upwards,
giving a percentage of 32.73 of the gross total of deaths, as
against a percentage for London generally of only 23.99.
There were, however, (see Table IIIa) only 404 deaths of
Parishioners of 60 years and upwards, giving a percentage
of 30.82 of the corrected total of deaths, or a proportion of
only 45.1 to a thousand persons living, as against 77.5 in
London generally and 81.8 in the 28 largest English
Towns, the lowest being Norwich, 71.5, Leicester, 69.7,
and Brighton, 61.4; and the highest, Blackburn, 103.0,
Bolton, 110.9, and Manchester, 121.9. From this Table
we also see that 94 Violent Deaths were registered in
the Parish, being 4.7 per cent. of the total deaths, but of
the 94 deaths registered under this heading, only 33 were
those of Parishioners (see Table IIIa), giving a per-centage
of only 2.5 of the corrected total of deaths, which is
nearly 1 per cent. below that of London generally. 1 his