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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
St Giles (Camden) 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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TABLE II.—
| Districts. | Total ascertained Deaths in London Hospitals. | Kings College Hospital, (Strand). | Middlesex Hospital (Marylebone). | Charing Cross Hospital (St. Martins | University College Hospital (St. Pancras, | 1 Children's Hospital (Holborn) | St. Bartholomew's Hospital (W. London) | Royal Free Hospital (St. Pancras). | London Fever Hospital (Islington). | Infants' Home, Bloomsbury. | St. Mary's Hospital (Paddington). | Westminster Hospital (Westminster.) | Deaths in Hospital out of the district. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Pancras | 304 | 11 | 54 | 2 | 113 | 9 | 6 | 40 | 69 | ? | ? | - | 151 |
| St. Marylebone | 196 | 4 | 94 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 16 | ? | 48 | 2 | 102 |
| Metropolis | 4980 | 234 | 292 | 74 | 211 | 71 | 565 | 129 | 668 | 36 | 191 | 174 | - |
| Holborn | 79 | 14 | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 25 | 9 | ? | ? | - | 75 |
| Strand | 117 | 64 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | ? | ? | - | 53 |
| St. Martin's | 55 | 26 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 7 | ? | 1 | - | 36 |
| St. Giles's | 114 | 27 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 21 | 0 | ? | 1 | 114 |
The figures in the above table were obtained by personal inspection of the books
of the several Hospitals., but the line for the Metropolis is from the Report of the
Registrar General. The figure for Marylebone patients in St. Mary's Hospital
is an estimate.