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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
Shoreditch 1896
Annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1896
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In the following list are set out the various public institutions outside the
parish, with the numbers of persons belonging to Shoreditch dying therein:—
TABLE VII.
| Asylums. | No. of Deaths. | General Hospitals-continued. | No. of Deaths. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethnal House Asylum | .. 2 | National | 2 |
| St. Luke's House | ... 1 | Poplar | 1 |
| Central London Sick | 1 | Great Northern | 3 |
| Banstead | .. 7 | Guy's | 1 |
| Grove Hall | 3 | King's College | 1 |
| Colney Hatch | 13 | St. George's | 1 |
| Cane Hill | 3 | Freidenheim | 3 |
| Darenth | 1 | Middlesex | 1 |
| Lun (Friern Barnet) | 1 | Mildmay Mission | 9 |
| Leavesden | 13 | Charing Cross | 1 |
| Ilford | 21 | French | 2 |
| Camberwell House | 1 | ||
| Peckham House | 1 | Hospitals for Special Diseases. | |
| Hanwell | 4 | ||
| Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals. | Royal Chest | 10 | |
| Brompton | 3 | ||
| City of London Chest | 4 | ||
| 33 | Hospital for Women, Soho | 1 | |
| City of London Lying-in | 5 | ||
| North Eastern (Haverstock Hill) | 20 | St. Peter's (for stone) | 1 |
| Evelina (children) | 1 | ||
| South Western (Stockwell) | 1 | Great Ormond Street (children) | 10 |
| South Eastern | 10 | Golden Square (throat) | 1 |
| Western | 1 | ||
| Ship (Castalia) | 1 | Infirmaries and Workhouses. | |
| General Hospitals. | Mitcham Workhouse | 1 | |
| St. Bartholomew's | 80 | Hackney Infirmary | 2 |
| Metropolitan Free | 30 | St. Saviour's ,, | 1 |
| London | 17 | Bethnal Green Workhouse | 3 |
| London Temperance | 1 | Islington Infirmary | 1 |
| German | 14 | St. Olave's Workhouse | 1 |
| Royal Free | 2 | Mile End Workhouse | 1 |
In general hospitals 171 persons died, in the various special hospitals there
were 33 deaths, in the fever hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board 66 died, in
workhouses and infirmaries 11, and 72 persons died in asylums. Elsewhere than in
public institutions sixteen residents died outside the parish, viz.: one drowned in the
River off Battersea, one in the Regent's Canal, one in the Millwall Dock, one in the
River Lea at Stamford Hill; two died on the way to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, one on
the way to Guy's Hospital and five on the way to a fever hospitals; one death
occurred in Harley Street, Bethnal Green, one in Hassart Street, Bethnal Green, one
in the Kingsland Road, one in Harwood Square, Marylebone, one in Great Charlotte
Street, one in Tabernacle Street, one in the Essex Road and one in the Paragon
Road, Hackney.