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wide distribution of the institutions in which persons
belonging to Bermondsey Parish have died
during the last year is astonishing. From the
weekly returns I have abstracted the deaths in each
institution, which are as follows: —In Rotherhithe
Infirmary, 153; in Parish Street Workhouse, 41;
in Guy's Hospital, 94; in the Metropolitan Asylums
Hospitals, 31; in lunatic asylums, 13; in 16 different
hospitals, situated in various parts of London,
50; in other parish infirmaries, 5; and found
drowned in the Thames, 5.
A large number of aged people are sent to
Rotherhithe Infirmary and die there. Many cases
of accidents in the streets, burns and scalds, etc.,
are sent to Guy's Hospital. The majority of the
deaths from zymotic diseases, outside the parish,
occur in the South Eastern Fever Hospital. Nine
persons died in St. Thomas's, and 9 children in
Evelina Hospital, 5 at King's College, 4 at Brompton,
4 at the London Hospital, 3 in St. Bartholomew's,
and 2 at University College Hospital, and
at several other hospitals a single patient in each.
The asylums included in this list are Wandsworth,
Cane Hill, Darenth, Colney Hatch, Banstead,
Hanwell, and Camberwell.
Some of the patients in these asylums have
probably not been residents of Bermondsey for
many years.
Comparatively few children die outside the
boundaries of the parish.
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