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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
Shoreditch 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The numbers and distribution of the deaths of persons, belonging and not belonging to the Borough, in public institutions in Shoreditch, are set out in the subjoined table:—
| Institution. | Persons belonging to Shoreditch. | Persons not belonging to Shoreditch. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holborn Union Workhouse | 5 | 247 | 252 |
| Shoreditch Workhouse | 432 | 7 | 439 |
| Hoxton House Asylum | 1 | 61 | 62 |
| Royal Chest Hospital | 11 | 65 | 76 |
| Convent Hospital | — | 7 | 7 |
| Total | 449 | 387 | 836 |
Elsewhere than in public institutions six persons not belonging to Shoreditch died within the Borough.
In the subjoined table are set forth the various public institutions outside Shoreditch with the numbers of persons belonging to the Borough dying therein:—
| Asylums. | No. of Deaths. | General Hospitals—continued. | No. of Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banstead | 5 | Middlesex | |||
| Bethnal House | 1 | Mildmay | 10 | ||
| Cane Hill | 1 | North Eastern (Children) | 19 | ||
| Caterham | 4 | Royal Free | 4 | ||
| City of London | 1 | St. Bartholomew's | 72 | ||
| Claybury | 15 | St. Thomas's | 1 | ||
| Colney Hatch | 4 | Spanish and Portugese | 1 | ||
| Darenth | 3 | Temperance | 2 | ||
| Dartford Heath | 13 | Westminster | 1 | ||
| Hanwell | 6 | Hospitals for Special Diseases. | |||
| Leavesden | 7 | Disease of the Chest, City of London | 2 | ||
| Manor | 1 | ||||
| Middlesex | 1 | Lying-in, City of London | 8 | ||
| Hospitals for Infectious Disease. | Hospital for Women, Soho | 1 | |||
| Eastern | 15 | Hospital for Women, Euston | 1 | ||
| Northern | 1 | Mount Vernon Consumption | 1 | ||
| North Eastern | 12 | Infirmaries and Workhouses. | |||
| North Western | 4 | Bethnal Green Infirmary | 3 | ||
| South Eastern | 3 | Camberwell Infirmary | 1 | ||
| Western | l | Hackney Infirmary | 2 | ||
| Small-pox Hospitals | 74 | Islington Infirmary | 2 | ||
| General Hospitals. | St. Pancras Infirmary | 1 | |||
| Freidenheim | 3 | Other Institutions. | |||
| Great Northern | 5 | Aged Pilgrim's Asylum | 1 | ||
| German | 8 | H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubbs | 1 | ||
| Gr. Ormond Street (Children) | 15 | ||||
| Guy's | 4 | H.M. Prison, Newgate | 1 | ||
| Homœopathic | 2 | St. Peter's Home | 1 | ||
| Italian | 2 | St. Anne's House, Stoke Newington | 1 | ||
| King's College | 4 | ||||
| London | 17 | Salvation Army Maternity Home | 1 | ||
| Metropolitan | 57 | ||||