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Whitechapel 1893

The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1893 (consisting of 52 weeks) being the tenth annual report

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The Deaths took place as follows:—
In the Whitechapel Infirmary 170
,, London Hospital 11
,, St. Bartholomew's Hospital 3
,, Shadwell Hospital 2
„ Mildmay Hospital 1
„ Ilford Asylum 1
,, Hospital Ship "Castalia" 1
,, German Hospital 1
,, Banstead Asylum 1
,, Royal Free Hospital 1
,, Homerton Hospital 1
,, Colney Hatch Asylum 1
,, Guy's Hospital 1
,, North Western Fever Hospital 1
At the several Lodging Houses 19
215
CAUSES OF DEATH
Amongst the Common Lodging-Houses Residents.
Smallpox
1
Other constitutional diseases
4
Scarlet Fever
1
Premature Birth
1
Influenza
7
Whooping Cough
1
Atelectasis
1
Diphtheria
3
Old Age
5
Diarrhoea
2
Apoplexy
2
Venereal Affections
3
Erysipelas
2
Convulsions
1
Puerperal Fever
2 '
Other nervous diseases
1
Rheumatism
1
Diseases of the circulatory
system
16
Gout
1
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, &c.
58
Rickets
1
Digestive diseases
10
Cancer
7
Urinary diseases
15
Tabes Mesenterica
1
Accidental death
1
Phthisis
52
Total
215
Tuberculosis
3
Shelters No. of
Admission
Orders given
by the
District
Medical
Officers.
Salvation Army Shelter for men, 272, Whitechapel-road 252
,, ,, women, 194, Hanbury-street 231
„ ,, men, Quaker-street 67
,, ,, men, Royal Mint-street 39
Church Army Shelter for men, 83, Whitechapel-road 15
Jewish Shelter, 84, Leman Street 6
Bamardo's Shelter for women, 12, Dock-street 34
,, ,, ,, 81, Commercial Street 35
Tenter Street East Philanthropic Shelter 8
Wood Street Church Army Home —
Working Lads' Institute, 137, Whitechapel Road —
Pelham House, Spital Square 1
688