London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square]
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the highest being Leicester, 196; Blackburn, 198; and
Preston, 216, deaths of children under one year of age to a
thousand births.
Table III.
| YEAR. | A. | B. | C. | D. | Percentages to Gross Total of Deaths. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons aged sixty years and upwards. | Violence. | Inquest Cases. | Uncertified. | |||||
| A. | B. | C. | D. | |||||
| 1883 | 537 | 93 | 126 | 27 | 29.11 | 5.05 | 6.8 | 1.46 |
| 1884 | 543 | 106 | 132 | 31 | 28.99 | 5.66 | 7.0 | 1.66 |
| 1885 | 557 | 70 | 106 | 22 | 31.42 | 4.46 | 6.0 | 1.25 |
| 1886 | 604 | 79 | 135 | 41 | 31.79 | 4.16 | 7.1 | 2.15 |
| 1887 | 521 | 88 | 122 | 20 | 30.17 | 5.00 | 7.0 | 1.15 |
| 1888 | 541 | 90 | 124 | 22 | 29.77 | 4.95 | 6.8 | 1.21 |
| 1889 | 523 | 77 | 116 | 30 | 31.43 | 4.63 | 7.0 | 1.80 |
| 1890 | 650 | 94 | 130 | 22 | 32.73 | 4.73 | 6.5 | 1.10 |
| 1891 | 627 | 95 | 144 | 17 | 33.38 | 5.05 | 7.6 | 0.97 |
| 1892 | 581 | 115 | 159 | 15 | 33.18 | 6.57 | 9.1 | 0.87 |
| London 1892 | 21,826 | 3,230 | 6.881 | 804 | 21.87 | 3.67 | 7.8 | 0.92 |
From Table III. it appears that there were 581 registered
deaths of persons aged 60 and upwards, giving a percentage
of 33.18 of the gross total of deaths, as against a percentage
for London generally of only 21.87. There were, however,
(see Table IIIa.), only 396 deaths of parishioners of 60
years and upwards, giving a percentage of 29.66 of the corrected
total of deaths. From Table III. we also see that
no less than 115 violent deaths were registered in the
parish, being 6.57 per cent. of the total deaths, but of the
115 deaths registered under this heading, only 50 were
those of parishioners (see Table IIIa.), giving a percentage
of 3.7 of the corrected total of deaths, which is almost
exactly the same as that of London generally, although
considerably higher than the rate for the Parish in 1891.
This shows the importance of reckoning only the deaths of
parishioners under this heading, which I am now able to do.