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 Borough in the public institutions situate in Shoreditch are as set out in the subjoined table: —
Institution. | Persons belonging to Shoreditch. | Persons not belonging to Shoreditch. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|
Holborn Union Workhouse | 263 | 277 | |
Shoreditch Workhouse | 530 | 23 | 553 |
Royal Chest Hospital | 15 | 54 | 69 |
Convent Hospital | 3 | 10 | 13 |
Total | 562 | 350 | 912 |
Elsewhere than in public institutions, twelve persons not belonging to Shoreditch
died within the Borough.
In the subjoined table are set forth the various public institutions outside Shore-< 1 itch with the numbers of persons belonging to the Borough dying therein: —
Asylums. | No. of Deaths. | General Hospitals—continued. | No. of Deaths. |
---|---|---|---|
Banstead | 3 | Great Northern | 2 |
Cane Hill | 4 | Gt. Orrnond Street (Children) | 22 |
Caterham | 5 | Guys | 2 |
Claybury | 10 | King's College | 1 |
Colney Hatch | 16 | London | 17 |
Darenth | 1 | Metropolitan | 96 |
Dartford Health | 8 | Mildmay | 6 |
Hanwell | 2 | Middlesex | 3 |
Horton | 5 | National | 2 |
Leavesden | 10 | North Eastern (Children) | 49 |
Long Grove | 2 | Royal Free | 2 |
Manor | 1 | St. Bartholomew's | 115 |
St. Luke's | 1 | Queen Alexandra's | |
Tooting Bee | 11 | Military Hospital | 1 |
Peckham House | 1 | Royal Free Hospital, Bath | 1 |
Hospitals for Infectious Disease. | Hospitals for Special Diseases, &c. Consumption Hospital, | ||
Eastern | 16 | ||
North Eastern | 35 | Brompton | 1 |
South Eastern | 5 | Queen Charlotte's Lying-in | 1 |
South Western | . . 1 | Lying-in, City of London | 5 |
General Hospitals. | Chest Hospital, Bethnal Green | 1 | |
Epileptic Colony, Epsom | 1 | ||
Evelina(Children) | 1 | St. Mark's | 1 |
Freidenheim | 1 | St. Peter's | 1 |
French | 2 | Hospital for Women, Soho | 2 |
German | 9 | Heart Hospital, Soho | 1 |