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 St. Giles District]
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The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street.
The hygienic condition of this lying-in hospital during the
past year has been most satisfactory; there has again been
an entire absence of puerperal fever from the wards.
The medical staff report that 148 women were delivered
in the Hospital, of these all recovered with one exception,
who died from Bright's disease. 149 children were born,
of whom 6 were stillborn.
In the out-patient department there were 600 deliveries,
with one maternal death from heart disease and bronchitis.
Deaths in Public Institutions.
(Outside the District.)
I receive by arrangement from the office of the RegistrarGeneral
a weekly return of the deaths of parishioners belonging
to St. Giles district occurring in the general hospitals
in the metropolitan area.
It will be seen from the table below that no less than 233 of our total deaths (904) occurred outside the district.
Public Institutions. | Number of Deaths. | Public Institutions. | Number of Deaths. |
---|---|---|---|
Brought forward | 121 | ||
Middlesex Hospital | 27 | French Hospital | 2 |
King's College ,, | 42 | German ,, | 1 |
Charing Cross „ | 18 | National Paralysis Hospital | 1 |
University College ,, | 19 | Children's Great Ormond Street | |
Homoeopathic „ | 2 | Hospital | 11 |
St .Elizabeth's „ | 1 | Consumption Hospital | 1 |
Cancer „ | 1 | Alexandra House Hospital | 1 |
Royal Free „ | 1 | Western Fever ,, | 5 |
Guy' s„ | 2 | South Eastern Fever ,, | 1 |
St. Burt's „ | 2 | Central Sick Asylum | 80 |
West London „ | 1 | Holborn Infirmary | 2 |
Women's Sobo „ | 1 | Hoxton House Asylum | 2 |
Women's Chelsea „ | 1 | Peckham House ,, | 2 |
St. George's ,, | 1 | Marylebone Infirmary | 1 |
Throat Hospital | 2 | Paddington Infirmary | 1 |
Public Way | 1 | ||
Carried forward | 121 | Total | 233 |