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 1909
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1909 including annual report on factories and workshops
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The corrected death rate in preceding years since 1904 were
22.0, 19.5, 21.4, 18.9, 19.0, and 19.7 per 1,000 respectively.
The comparison with the rest of the country may be seen below:—
| England and Wales | 14.5 |
| Finsbury | 19.0 |
| 76 Great Towns | 15.6 |
| 143 Small Towns | 14.5 |
| Rural Districts | 13.6 |
In the Registrar-General's return, Finsbury is placed as having
the third highest rate in London.
The death rates in the City of London and in Shoreditch are
both higher than the rate in Finsbury.
The Finsbury deaths were apportioned as follows:—
| Clerkenwell | 1,116 |
| St. Luke's | 664 |
| St. Sepulchre | 34 deaths. |
The deaths in Hospitals and other Institutions are appended:—
| 1. General Hospitals. | IV. Poor Law Institutions | ||
| St. Bartholomews | 184 | Holborn Infirmary | 329 |
| Royal Free | 39 | Holborn Workhouse | |
| King's College | 7 | City Road | 220 |
| Middlesex | 8 | Holborn Workhouse, | |
| University | 11 | Mitcham | 19 |
| Other Hospitals | 21 | Other Poor Law | |
| 270 | Institutions | 8 | |
| II. Special Hospitals. | 376 | ||
| Great Ormond Street | V. Asylums. | ||
| (Childrens') | 32 | ||
| Homoeopathic | 3 | Caterham | 3 |
| Royal Chest | 7 | Banstead | 5 |
| Other Hospitals | 19 | Colney Hatch | 3 j |
| 61 | Claybury | 1 | |
| III. Fever Hospitals. | Other Asylums | 19 | |
| Eastern | 6 | 38 | |
| North Eastern | 2 | ||
| North Western | 15 | VI. Unclassifiable | 20 |
| 23 | Total | 988 | |