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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
St Luke 1899
Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1899
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Hospitals, Asylums, Infirmaries, Workhouses, and other Institutions and places situated outside the Parish at which Parishioners died during the year:—
| Asylum for Imbeciles, Banstead | 2 |
| ,, ,, ,, Caterham | 5 |
| ,, ,, ,, Leavesden | 3 |
| ,, ,, Lunatics, Cane Hill | 1 |
| ,, ,, ,, Colney Hatch | 3 |
| ,, ,, ,, Dartford | 3 |
| ,, ,, ,, Hanwell | 1 |
| City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest | 1 |
| ,, ,, Infirmary, Bow | 1 |
| German Hospital, Dalston | 1 |
| Guards' ,, Rochester Row | 1 |
| Guy's „ | 2 |
| Holborn Union Infirmary, Archway Road | 204 |
| ,, Workhouses, Shepherdess Walk and Mitcham | 137 |
| Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street | 4 |
| ,, Women, Soho | 1 |
| King's College Hospital | 1 |
| London ,, | 8 |
| Metropolitan ,, | 1 |
| ,, Asylums Board Hospitals. | 15 |
| Middlesex Hospital | 3 |
| Mildmay ,, | 1 |
| River Thames | 2 |
| Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road | 3 |
| St. Anne's House, Stoke Newington | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 90 |
| St. Luke's House, Osnaburgh Street | 1 |
| Temperance Hospital | 1 |
| In the Street, &c., Hackney | 1 |
| ,, ,, Hemmingford Road | 1 |
| In the Poplar Chemical Works | 1 |
| 495 |
The above deaths are referred to in an early paragraph of this
Report as those of parishioners who died in Institutions outside
the Parish, and it will be seen that they constitute a considerable
proportion of the total deaths, viz., 43.0 per cent. The list of such
deaths is furnished to me weekly from the Registrar-General's
office and is therefore official, nevertheless, I have from time to