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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
St Luke 1893
Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1893
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The 74 deaths of non-parishioners occurred at the following
Hospitals situated in the Parish:—
Eoyal Hospital for Disease of the Chest 46
City of London Lying-in Hospital 13
St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics 10
St. Mark's Hospital for Fistula, &c. 5
74
Hospitals, Asylums and other Institutions situated outside
the Parish, at which parishioners died during the year:—
Banstead Asylum 3
Cancer Hospital, Brompton 1
Cane Hill Asylum 3
Cheyne Hospital for Sick Children 1
Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street 13
City of London Police Hospital 1
Colney Hatch Asylum 6
French Hospital, Soho 1
German Hospital, Dalston 1
Great Northern Hospital 1
Guy's Hospital 2
Hanwell Asylum 3
Holborn Union Infirmary, Archway Road 100
Holborn Union Workhouses—
Shepherdess Walk, Gray's Inn Boad, and Mitcham 178
King's College Hospital 2
Leavesden Asylum 1
London Hospital 3
Metropolitan Asylums Board Fever Hospitals and Ships 41
Mildmay Hospital 1
Middlesex County Asylum, Friern Barnet 2
New Biver, Canonbury 1
Poplar Sick Asylum 1
Boyal Free Hospital 3
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 121
St. Peter's House, Kennington 1
University College Hospital 1
Total 492
Inquests.
One hundred and seventeen Inquests were held on the
bodies of parishioners during the year, being at the rate of 9.0
per cent, of the total deaths. Eighty-three of the inquiries