Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1898
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DEATHS IN INSTITUTIONS.
In the local institutions there were 600 deaths,
including 303 of non-parishioners; and, in institutions
beyond the limits of the Parish, 174 deaths
of- parishioners occurred. In all, 471 deaths of
parishioners took place during the year in public
institutions, equal to 23.2 per cent. of all deaths.
Local Institutions.
Paddington Workhouse & Infirmary 194, including 16 non-parishioners.
Lock Hospital 2, „ 2 „
Children's Hospital, Paddington Green 80, „ 61 „
St. Mary's Hospital 324, „ 224 „
Outlying Institutions.
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board 45
Scarlet fever 5 Diphtheria 35
Enteric fever 2 Other diseases 3
General Hospitals 38
Cancer 3 Tubercular diseases 4
Enteric fever 2 Other diseases 28
Special Hospitals 19
Cancer 1 Tubercular diseases 7
Scarlet fever 1 Other diseases 10
"Homes" 9
Tubercular diseases 3 Other diseases 6
Lunatic Asylums 42
Tubercular diseases 3 Cancer 2
Other diseases, 37.
Poor Law Institutions 3
Other diseases, 3.
"Elsewhere" 18
Tubercular diseases 1 Cancer 1
Other diseases, 16.
Of the 174 deceased persons, 25 ware residents of South Paddington.