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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

Stepney 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Royal Waterloo Hospital1
St. Bartholomew's Hospital12
St. Catherine's Hospital, Ramsgate2
St. Joseph's Hospice1
St. Luke's Hospital1
St. Luke's House, Kensington3
St. Mary's Hospital1
St. Thomas's Hospital2
Seamen's Hospital6
Shoreditch Infirmary2
Sick Room Help Society, Underwood Street1
Stepney Workhouse68
University College Hospital2
Westminster Infirmary1
West Ham Infirmary1
775

Table: The following number of deaths of residents occurred in Public Institutions in the Borough:—

The following number of deaths of residents occurred in Public Institutions in the Borough:—

East London Hospital for Children201
London Hospital428
Mile End Infirmary383
Mothers' Lying-in Home, Commercial Road8
St. George's Infirmary182
Whitechapel Infirmary262
Whitechapel Workhouse, South Grove44
1,508

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There were 1,081 deaths of non-residents in Public Institutions in the District.
Notifiable Diseases.
1,717 notifications of Infectious Disease were received, or 16 less than in
the previous year. This corresponds to a rate of 6.23 per 1,000 of the population.
1,369 were removed to various Hospitals and Infirmaries.
334 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of 6.33 per 1,000.
245 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate of 5'25 per 1,000.
714 belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of 6 .44 per 1,000.
424 belonged to the Whitechapel District, or at the rate of 6.49 per 1,000.
There were in addition, 3,931 notification certificates received referring to
Tuberculosis, 2,542 of whom were notified for the first time.