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HAN 3
REPORT
on
THE SANITARY CONDITION
of the
Parish of St. George, hanover Square,
FOR THE YEAR 1895,
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 Member of the Society of Hygiene of France,
and of the Hungarian Society of Public Health; Honorary Corresponding Member of ths Royal
Society of Public Health of Belgium, of the Imperial Society of Medicine of Constantinople, and
of the Royal Society of Hygiene of Italy; Fellow of the Medical Society of Sweden;
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
(BEING HIS TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT).
To the vestry of the Parish Saint George,
hanover square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish
during the 52 weeks ending December 28th, 1895, was
1,675, against an average of 1,772 during the preceding
ten years. Of these deaths 603 were those of NonParishioners
(Table II.), leaving 1,072 deaths of Parishioners.
To these, however, must be added 113 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 1,185, or 128 less than the average during
the preceding ten years. (See Table I.)
In my Annual Report for 1892 I explained the manner
in which I estimated the population for the middle of that
year; applying the same method, I calculate that the population
of the Parish at the middle of 1895 was as follows:—
Mayfair 22,904
Belgravia 56,464
Whole Parish 79,368
It must, however, be borne in mind that this estimate is
based upon the Census population of 1891, which I believe to
be, for reasons given in previous Annual Reports, considerably
too low, in fact, some thousands below the real population.