Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1893
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Fountain Fever Hospital 2
North-Western Fever Hospital 10
Hospital Ships 2
Cane Hill Asylum 1
Banstead „ 4
Hanwell „ 5
Leavesden „ 5
Colney Hatch ,, 2
Caterham „ 9
Darenth „ 1
Middlesex ,, Wandsworth 2
Ilford „ 2
Asylum Friern Barnet 1
St. George's Workhouse 1
Chelsea Infirmary 1
Islington „ 1
Home of St. John the Divine 2
Lambeth Workhouse Schools 2
The Convent, Carlisle Place 1
Essex Buildings 1
Wormwood Scrubs Prison 1
Friedenheim 1
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The following deaths of parishioners were also recorded:—
On Metropolitan Railway 2
At Lime Works, King's Road 1
Drowned in River Thames 2
In all 460 deaths or 23 per cent, of the total number occurred in
workhouses, hospitals, and public lunatic asylums. The proportion
of deaths in institutions was, in the whole of London, 26-9 per cent.,
and in England and Wales 21.1 per cent.