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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
Shoreditch 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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TABLE IX.
| Asylums. | No. of Deaths. | General Hospitals-continued. | No. of Deaths. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethnal House | 1 | Freidenheim | 1 |
| St. Luke's House | 3 | Middlesex | 1 |
| Banstead | 3 | Mildmay Mission | 4 |
| Grove Hall | 1 | St. Mary's | 1 |
| Colney Hatch | 11 | Bolingbroke | 1 |
| Cane Hill | 5 | St. Thomas' | |
| Darenth | 5 | Westminster | 1 |
| Leavesden | 11 | Hospitals for Special Diseases. | |
| Ilford | 20 | ||
| Hanwell | 3 | Royal Chest | 13 |
| Claybury | 2 | City of London Chest | 3 |
| City of London | 1 | City of London Lying-in | 3 |
| Licensed Victuallers | 1 | Evelina (children) | 2 |
| Middlesex | 1 | Great Ormond Street (children) | 11 |
| Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals. | St. Marks' | 1 | |
| Ca,ncer | 1 | ||
| Hospital for Women, Euston Road | 1 | ||
| Eastern (Homerton) | 30 | ||
| North Eastern (Haverstock Hill) | 13 | Maternity Hospital, Hackney | 1 |
| Infirmaries and Workhouses | |||
| South Western | 3 | ||
| South Eastern | 14 | City of London Infirmary | 1 |
| North Western | 14 | Kensington Infirmary | 1 |
| "Castalia" (ship) | 1 | Holborn Infirmary | 1 |
| General Hospitals. | Hackney Infirmary | ||
| Bethnal Green Workhouse | |||
| St. Bartholomew's | 73 | Islington Infirmary | 1 |
| Metropolitan Free | 35 | St. Olave's Workhouse | 1 |
| London | 15 | Other Institutions. | |
| London Temperance | 1 | ||
| German | 5 | Brixton Orphanage | 1 |
| Royal Free | 2 | H.M. Prison, Holloway | 1 |
| Guy's | 4 | St. Peter's Home | 1 |
| King's College | 3 | Aged Pilgrims' Asylum | 1 |
| St. George's | 1 | Gresham Almshouses (Brixton) | 1 |
Of 344 deaths in public institutions, 150 occurred in the various general hospitals,
75 in the fever hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 68 in lunatic asylums, 36
in hospitals for special diseases, 10 in workhouses and infirmaries, and 5 in other
institutions. Elsewhere than in public institutions twelve residents of Shoreditch
died without the parish, viz.:—One accidentally drowned in the River Lea, and one
in the Regent's Canal, one through being run over in Holborn, and one who was run
over by a train on the North London Railway, a case of suicide, one on the way to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, one at a house in Brunswick Close from rupture of an
aneurism, one in a cab in the Kingsland Road, and five at houses situate in Commercial
Road, Whitechapel, Upper Wimpole Street, Devonshire Street, Marylebone,
Mayton Street, Highbury, and Derby Road, Hackney.