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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 1897

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

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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
during the 52 weeks was only 1,067, or 207 less than the
average during the preceding ten years.
This gives a corrected death-rate of 13 32 per thousand
per annum on the estimated population.
It will be seen from Table I. that the death-rate of the
Parish during 1897 was lower than that of any former
year, and nearly 2ΒΌ per thousand lower than the average
of the preceding ten years.

Table: Table I.

Table I.

YEAR.Gross Total of Deaths.Deaths in Public Institutions.Proportional Share of Deaths in Public InstitutionsCorrected Total of Deaths.Corrected Death-rate per 1,000 per annum.
18871,7277624731,43816.05
18881,8178614821,43816.05
18891,6647563631,27115.82
1890 (53 weeks)1,9869973401,32916.46
Deaths of Non-Parishioners in the Parish.Deaths of Parishioners in Public Institutions outside the Parish.
18911,8779041441,31216.22
18921,7515641471,334 1,21716.97
18931,71665415515.38
18941,5105541401,09613.80
18951,6756031131,18514.98
1896(53 weeks)1,5415691451,11713.74
Average during ten years, 1887-18961,7261,27415.54
18971,5776301201,06713.32
Average during ten years, 1888-18971,7111,23715.51
*Applying the correction for age and sex distribution (factor=1.10438), given by Mr. Murphy in his Annual Report to the London County Council for 1893, the death-rate of the Parish for 1896 would be 15.17.