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REPORT
THE SANITARY CONDITION
of the
Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square,
FOR THE YEAR, 1890.
BY
W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D. (OXON), F.R.C.P. (LOND.)
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; of the Imperial Society of Medicine of
Constantinople; of the Royal Society of Hygiene of Italy ; and of the Society of Hygiene
of France.
medical officer of health,
(BEING HIS NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT)
To the Destun of the Parish of St. George
HANOVER SQUARE.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish
during the 53 weeks ending January 3rd, 1891, was
1986, a larger number than any registered in the
Parish during the preceding ten years, and 124 more than
the annual average during those ten years. Of these deaths
997 occurred in Public Institutions in the Parish, whereas
. the deaths of our Parishioners in Public Institutions in the
Metropolis and those in the extra Metropolitan Asylums
only amounted to 340, so that the total of deaths of our
Parishioners (corrected for 52 weeks) was only 1304, or
146 less than the average during the preceding 10 years,
I and equivalent to a corrected death-rate of only 14.56 per