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REPORT
ON
THE ,Sanitari condition
of the
Parish of St. George, Hanover Square,
FOR THE YEAR 1892,
BY
W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D. (Oxon), F.R.C.P. (Lond.),
Professor of Hygiene and Public Health in University College, London; Past President of
the Society of Medical Officers of Health; Honorary Member of the Society of Hygiene of
France; Honorary Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Public Health of Belgium;
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-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT)
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. George,
HANOVER SQUARE.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The total number of deaths registered in the Parish
during the 52 weeks ending December 31st, 1892, was
1,751, against an average of 1,833 during the preceding
ten years. Of these deaths, 564 were those of NonParishioners,
leaving 1,187 deaths of Parishioners. To
these, however, must be added 147 deaths of our 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 was only
1,334, or 77 less than the average during the preceding ten
years.
The New Tables, A and B, issued by the Local Government
Board in December, 1891, require the population, for
purposes of calculation of the death-rates, &c., to be an
estimated population at the middle of the year.