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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 1895

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

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Table: Table II.D eaths in P ublic I nstitutions in the P arish.

Table II.

D eaths in P ublic I nstitutions in the P arish.

Parishioners.Non-Parishioners.
Mayfair.Belgravia.Sub-District not stated.
Fulbam Road Workhouse66550258
St. George's Union Workhouse...4...2
St. George's Hospital12552312
Belgrave Children's ditto18...11
Gordon Hospital for Cancer............
Other Places in the Parish23220
Total in the Parish2113554603
In Public Institutions in London, outside of the Parish, and in the Extra Metropolitan Asylums247217...

Table: Table iii . Death-rates per 1,000 per annum.

Table iii . Death-rates per 1,000 per annum.

1886188718881889189018911892189318941895
28 Large English Towns-20.920.819.219.321.322.3*20.7*21.6*18.1*20.7
London19.919.613.318.321.521.420.621.317.819.8
Greater London19.318.917.817.320.119.819.319.716.518.4
St. George's, Hanover sq.17.1716.0516.0514.1914.5614.6516.9715.3813.8014.98

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*33 Towns.
From Table III. we see that the death-rate of London
proper amounted to 19.8, the average rate in the previous
ten years having been 201.
The death-rate of Greater London, with an estimated
population of 6,048,555, was 18 4, the average rate in the
previous ten years having been 18.8.