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
Bethnal Green 1913
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1913 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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INSTITUTIONS. Persons Enumerated in Workhouse Establishments, in Hospitals and in Lunatic Asylums.
| Registration District and Sub-District. | Civil Parish. | Institution. | Special Inmates (Patients, Paupers, Lunatics, Ac.). | Officials and their Families. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons. | Males. | Females. | Persons | Males. | Females. | |||
| Bethnal Green, North-east. | Bethnal Green ... | Workhouse | 1,146 | 734 | 412 | 47 | 12 | 35 |
| Workhouse Infirmary | 593 | 332 | 261 | 124 | 15 | 109 | ||
| Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum | 278 | 122 | 156 | 56 | 19 | 37 | ||
| Mildmay Mission Hospital | 36 | 17 | 19 | 37 | 3 | 34 | ||
| City of London Hospital for Chest Diseases | 165 | 84 | 81 | 54 | 6 | 48 | ||
| Queen's Hospital for Children | 124 | 66 | 58 | 85 | 9 | 76 | ||
| Children's Home and Orphanage | 326 | 212 | 114 | 42 | 11 | 31 | ||
(Census Returns, Vol. 1., p. 639.)