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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
Hanover Square 1891
[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 20.0 (or 2 per thousand
higher than in 1889), that of Glasgow 25.3, and that of
Dublin 26.4, the two latter being higher than in 1889.
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—
St. Louis 18.7
Stockholm 19.6
Philadelphia 20.5
Christiania 21.1
and the highest being-
Budapest 31.4
Alexandria 39.6
Moscow 40.3
Madras 42.9
Cairo 44.8
| YEAR. | Registered Births. | Birth-rate per l,000 per ann. (52 weeks). | DEATHS OF CHILDREN UDER 1 YEAR. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (uncorrected). | Percentage to Registered Births, | Percentage to Total Deaths (uncorrected.) | |||