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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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The death-rate of the 33 largest English towns was 207.
The death-rate of this parish was lower than that of any
one of the 33 largest English towns except Croydon, the
nearest to it being
Croydon 14.5
Derby 6.7
Huddersfield 16.9
Leicester 17.2
Portsmouth 17.8
West Ham 17.9
and the highest being:—
Bolton 24.0
Blackburn 24.3
Wolverhampton 244
Manchester 25.2
Salford 25.6
Liverpool. 28.8
The death-rate of Edinburgh was 20.7, or the same as
that of the 33 great towns; that of Glasgow 23.5, and that
of Dublin 27.9.
All these rates are considerably higher than in 1894,
when no great English Town had so high a rate as 24.
Two Colonial cities had lower death-rates than this
parish, the lowest death-rates among Colonial and Foreign
cities being those of:—
Sydney 13.1
Brisbane 13.7
St. Louis 16.8
Christiania 16.9
Stockholm l7.0
Amsterdam 17.4
Cincinnati 18.1
Copenhagen 18.5
The Hague 18.8