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St Pancras 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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II.—VITAL STATISTICS.

Table: PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.Birth.—The number of births occurring in Public Institutions during the year 1898 was as follows :—

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

Birth.—The number of births occurring in Public Institutions during the year 1898 was as follows :—

Homes of Hope, Gray's Inn Lane Sub-District43
Workhouse, Camden Town Sub-District180
Total223

Table: Population and Deaths in Public Institutions.

Population and Deaths in Public Institutions.

Registration Sub-Districts.Number of Inmates.Parochial Institutions.Daily Average No. of InmatesDeaths.
Parishioners.Non-Parishioners.Total.
Regent's Park28St. Saviour's Cancer Hospital1344
St. Luke's House1533033
Tottenham Court359University College Hospital184122144266
Home Hospitals18–1515
Central London Sick Asylum157—178178
Gray's Inn Lane126Royal Free Hospital11453129182
CentralThroat&EarHospital12–66
Somers Town103Temperance Hospital677730107
Hospital for Women3611213
Camden Town2122Workhouse20743907397
North West London Hospital48341145
Kentish Town479Infirmary4793517358
Total in Parochial Institutions321710315731604
In Extra Parochial Institutions2409610–610
Totals562616415732214

Table: Extra Parochial Institutions .—Of certain Public Institutions situated outside the boundaries of St. Pancras, the daily average numbers of inmates belonging to St. Pancras housed by them, corrected to the end of 1898, are as follows:—

Extra Parochial Institutions .—Of certain Public Institutions situated outside the boundaries of St. Pancras, the daily average numbers of inmates belonging to St. Pancras housed by them, corrected to the end of 1898, are as follows:—

St. Anne's Home, Streatham, a branch of St. Pancras Workhouse476
Lunatic Asylums917
Imbecile and Idiot Asylums716
Fever and Small-Pox Asylums300
Total population2409

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In addition there are—
The children at these Insti-
Leavesden Schools, near Watford 598 tutions are part of the
population of the locality
in which they are situated.