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Hanover Square 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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Table IX.— continued.

Year.St. George's Hanover Square.London.
188058.0135.17
188150.2635.87
1882 188352.56 55.0936.82 37.88N.B.—These figures for London are too high, being calculated from erroneous estimates of the population.
188453.7838.08
188556.1139.29
188654.4639.31
188756.4939.98
188857.7141.77
1889 189061.43 62.6743.27 41.10
189161.6238.28
189255.2739.58
189359.5838.61
189466.1943.81
189559.9640.60

Table IX. shows the mean length of life in this parish
for the last 21 years, and in London for the last 18 years,
and from it we find that the mean length of life in this
parish during the last 21 years has averaged over 55¼
years, while during the last ten years it has averaged over
59½ years, and that the mean length of life in London has
averaged 38f years during the last 18 years, and over
40½ years during the last 10 years.
Table X. shows that the total number of Parishioners
dying from the principal infectious diseases and from
diarrhoea, including 20 dying in Public Institutions outside
of the Parish, was 109, which is equivalent to a zymotic
death-rate of only 1.38, as against 1.23 in 1894, the rate for