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Hanover Square 1897

[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
N.B.—These figures for London
are too high, being calculated
from erroneous estimates of the
population.
1880
58.01
35.17
1881
50.26
35.87
1882
52.56
36.82
1883
55.09
37.88
1884
53.78
38.08
1885
56.11
39.29
1886
54.46
39.31
1887
56.49
39.98
1888
57.71
41.77
1889
61.43
43.27
1890
62.67
41.10
1891
61.62
38.28
1892
55.27
39.58
1893
59.58
38.61
1894
66.19
43.81
1895
59.96
40.60
1896
65.49
42.03
1897
66.69
42.61
Table IX. shows the mean length of life in this parish
for the last 23 years, and in London for the last 20 years,
and from it we find that the mean length of life in this
parish during the last 23 years has averaged 56¼ years,
while during the last ten years it has averaged over 61½
years, and that the mean length of life in London has
averaged over 38¾ years during the last 20 years, and over
41 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 17 dying in Public Institutions outside
of the Parish, was only 94, a lower number than in any year
since the Table was commenced (1890), which is equivalent