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Shoreditch 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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Elsewhere than in public institutions, 7 persons died in the parish who were
not residents, viz., 1 in an omnibus, Kingsland Road, 1 in Charlotte Street, 1 in
Goldsmith's Row, 1 in Shoreditch High Street, and 8 at houses situate in Weymouth
Terrace, Brownlow Road and Lynedoch Street.
In addition to these one person not belonging to the parish was killed on the
Great Eastern Railway, and there were seven deaths from drowning in the Regent's
Canal, three of which were persons not resident in the district. In the various
public institutions and elsewhere outside the area of the parish 326 persons,
inhabitants of the parish died, 185 of whom were males and 141 females.
In the following Table are set out the various public institutions and the
numbers of deaths of residents of this parish therein:—
TABLE IX.
| Asylums. | No. of Deaths. | General Hospitals—continued. | No. of Deaths. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central London Sick | 2 | St. Luke's House (Regent's Park) | 3 |
| Aged Pilgrims | 1 | Charing Cross | 1 |
| Banstead | 8 | Mildmay Mission | 5 |
| Grove Hall | 1 | Hospitals for Special Disease. | |
| Colney Hatch | 8 | ||
| Cane Hill | 3 | (Chest and Consumption.) | |
| Darenth | 4 | Royal Chest | 10 |
| Lun (Friern Barnet) | 1 | City of London Chest | 5 |
| Leavesden | 12 | Brompton | 1 |
| Ilford | 14 | (Incurables.) | |
| Licensed Victuallers (Peckham) | 2 | ||
| Camberwell House | 8 | St. Elizabeth's | 1 |
| Caterham | 1 | (Lying-in and Women's.) | |
| Peckham House | 1 | ||
| Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals. | City of London | 5 | |
| Eastern (Homerton) | 28 | Evelina | 2 |
| North Western (HaverstockHill) | 15 | Great Ormond Street | 7 |
| Shadwell | 1 | ||
| Ship (Castalia) | 2 | (Throat and Ear) | |
| South Western (Stockwell) | 1 | ||
| General Hospitals. | Central London | 1 | |
| London | 17 | Private Institutions. | |
| Metropolitan Free | 35 | St. Anne's House, Stoke Newington | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's | 80 | ||
| Guy's | 2 | Butchers' Almshouses (Fulham) | 1 |
| German | 9 | Infirmaries and Workhouses. | |
| Royal Free | 1 | ||
| King's College | 7 | Hackney Infirmary | 4 |
| St. George's | 1 | City „ (Bromley | 1 |
| Freidenheim | 2 | St. Saviour's „ | 1 |
| Alexandra | 1 | City of London „ | 1 |
| Middlesex | 1 | Bethnal Green Workhouse | 1 |