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Battersea 1894

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1894

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In all five hundred and thirty deaths, nine fewer than in
1893, occurred in public institutions and "elsewhere," of whom
a large majority were adults. Of these one hundred and sixty
one took place in the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary
and the Workhouse, two hundred and twenty five in the
General and Special Hospitals of the Metropolis, ninety in the
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals for infectious diseases,
thirty one in the various Lunatic Asylums, and twenty three
" elsewhere " as detailed below.
The twenty-three deaths recorded as having occurred
" elsewhere " are here definitely located :
Male Dymock Street, Fulham.
Female 24, Charles Mews, Paddington.
Male 227, High Holborn.
„ 42, Queens Road, Chelsea.
„ Whitcomb Street, W.C.
Female 515, Fulham Road.
Male Gipsy Hill Railway Station.
Female 66, Mark Lane, E.C.
Male Thames, Westminster.
,, Wandsworth Road Station.
„ On way to St. Thomas' Hospital.
,, Victoria Station (L. B. & S. C. R.)
„ Thames, Putney.
Female On way to St. Thomas' Hospital.
Male 7, King William Street, Greenwich.
„ Wandsworth Cemetery.
„ Thames, Chelsea.
Female Kings Road, Chelsea.
Male L. & S. W. R., Lambeth.
„ 1, Bedford Circus.
,, Thames, off Wapping.
„ Strealham (L. B. fit S. C. R.)
„ Watney's Distillery, Wandsworth.
Tables 11., III., and IV., give in tabular form the weekly
returns of the District Registrars of Births and Deaths for East
and West Battersea respectively, and include the deaths of all
persons within the parish and in public institutions, whether
parishioners or not. They shew the incidence of births and
deaths at the various periods of the year, being grouped in
quarters for that purpose, with additional particulars as to
causes of death to be found in Table IV.