Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 thorough, 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 | 6 | 241 | 247 |
Shoreditch Workhouse | 477 | 8 | 485 |
Hoxton House Asylum | — | 34 | 34 |
Royal Chest Hospital | 11 | 52 | 63 |
Convent Hospital | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Total | 495 | 337 | 832 |
Elsewhere than in public institutions nine 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:—
No. of
Asylums. Deaths.
Banstead 3
Bethnal House 4
Cane Hill 4
Caterham1
Central London Sick 1
Claybury 16
Colney Hatch 13
Darenth 3
Dartford Heath 8
Hanwell 4
Horton 10
Leavesden 5
Manor 1
Metropolitan Benefit Society's 1
Norwood 1
Tooting Bee 5
Hospitals for I factious Disease.
Eastern 32
North Eastern 3
North Western 1
South Eastern 1
South Western 1
General Hospitals.
French 1
German 12
Gr. Ormond Street (Children) 17
Guy's 2
Homoeopathic 1
King's College 6
London 13
Metropolitan 52
Mildmay 7
No. of
General Hospitals—continued. Deaths.
North Eastern (Children) 19
Boyal free 2
Royal Hospital for Incurables 1
St. Bartholomew's 87
St. Francis, Hampstead 1
St. Mary's 1
Shadwell (Children) 1
Temperance 2
University 4
Hospitals for Special Diseases.
Brompton Consumption 3
Dissase of the Chest, City of
London 1
Heart Hospital, Soho 1
Lying-in, City of London 4
Boyal London Ophthalmic 1
Infirmaries and Workhouses.
Bethnal Green Infirmary
and Workhouse 10
City Infirmary 1
Greenwich Infirmary 1
Hackney Infirmary 4
Islington Infirmary 2
St. George's Infirmary 1
Wood Green 1
Other Institutions.
H.M. Hospital, Stepney 1
H.M. Prison, Wormwood
Scrubbs 2
H.M. Prison, Brixton 1
St. Peter's Home 1
Hostel of God 1