London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Finsbury 1908
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops
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Of the 1,767 deaths, 891, as already stated, occurred in outlying
Institutions. The remainder, viz., 876, occurred in the Borough.
The number occurring in each of the sub-registration districts
was:-
Clerkenwell 551
St. Luke 313
St. Sepulchre 12
876
The outlying Institutions in which Finsbury residents died are
named below and in Table E, the figures relating to deaths in such
Institutions each year since 1901 are shown.
DEATHS IN HOSPITALS, &c.
I. General Hospitals. IV. Poor Law Institutions.
St. Bartholomew's 177 Holborn Infirmary 250
Royal Free 44 Holborn Workhouse,
King's College 6 City Road 189
Middlesex 7 Holborn Workhouse,
University 1 Mitcham 27
Other Hospitals 25 Other Poor Law Institutions 13
260| 479
II. Special Hospitals. V. Asylums.
Great Ormond Street
(Children's) 31 Caterham 2
Homœopathic 5 Banstead 3
Royal Chest 5 Dartford 3
Other Hospitals 12 Colney Hatch 5
Claybury 5
Other Asylums 14
III. Fever Hospitals.
Eastern 17 32
North Western 8
London Fever 2 VI. Unclassifiable 39
Fountain 1 Total 891
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