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REPORT
ON
ANITARY CONDITION
OF THE
Parish of St. George, Hanober Square,
FOR THE YEAR 1891,
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 oj
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; Fellow
of the Medical Society of Sweden;
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
(BEING HIS TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT.)
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. George,
HANOVER SQUARE.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish
during the 52 weeks ending January 2nd, 1892, was 1,877,
against an average of 1,838 during the preceding ten years.
Of these deaths, 904 were those of Non-Parishioners,
leaving 973 deaths of Parishioners. To these, however,
must be added 144 deaths of our Parishioners in Public
Institutions in the Metropolis outside of the Parish and in
the extra Metropolitan Asylums, so that the corrected total
of deaths of our Parishioners was only 1,312, or 113 less
than the average during the preceding ten years, and
equivalent to a corrected death-rate of only 1465 per
thousand per annum, as against an average annual deathrate
of 15.16 during the preceding ten years.