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REPORT ON THE SANITARY CONDITION
OF THE
Parish of St. George, hanober Square,
FOR THE YEAR 1897,
BY
W. H. COHFIELD,
M.A., M.D. (Oxon.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), Hon. A.R.I.B.A.,
and Honorary Sanitary Adviser to University College Hospital;
Professor of Hygiene and Public Health in University College, London; Past President of
the Society of Medical Officers of Health; Vice-President of the Sanitary Institute; "Membre
d'honneur" of the Royal Society of Public Health of Belgium; Honorary Member of the
Society of Hygiene of France, and of the Hungarian Society of Public Health; Honorary
Corresponding Member 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-sixth Annual Report.)
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
In my last Annual Report I gave a Table showing
the Census Populations of the Parish, and of the two SubDistricts,
from 1891 to 1896, and stated my reasons for
believing that the populations, as enumerated at the
Censuses of 1891 and 1896, were too low; estimating,
however, from them, I calculate that the population of the
Parish at the middle of 1897 was as follows:—
Mayfair 23,850
Belgravia 56,526
Whole Parish 80,376
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish
during the 52 weeks ending January 1st, 1898, was 1,577
(Table I.). Of these deaths 630 were those of NonParishioners
(Table II.), leaving 947 deaths of Parishioners.
To these, however, must be added 120 deaths of our