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DECEASED PERSONS
Inquests
Inquests were held on 90 residents of the borough during the year, the verdicts being
20 deaths due to road accidents, 21 home accidents, 12 other accidents, 18 suicide, 5 misadventure,
3 murder, 1 manslaughter, 1 infanticide, 4 open verdicts, 1 asbestosis, 2 unascertainable
and 2 inquests not resumed.
Transport of bodies abroad
From time to time certificates are issued regarding bodies being transported abroad to
the effect that the deceased had not died from an infectious disease and that the coffin was
hermetically sealed. Three such certificates were issued this year, relating to bodies flown
to Israel and Turkey.
HOSPITAL FACILITIES
The undermentioned hospitals are situated within the borough:
No. of Beds.
Bethnal Green Hospital, Bethnal Green Road, E.2. 302
East End Maternity Hospital, 384, Commercial Road, E.l. 54
The London Hospital, ffhitechapel Road, E.l. 707
London Chest Hospital, Victoria Park, E.2. 143
London Jewish Hospital, Stepney Green, E.l. 128
Mildmay Mission Hospital, Austen Street, E.2. 72
Mile End Hospital, 275, Bancroft Road, E.l. 410
Poplar Hospital, East India Dock Road, E.14. 121
Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney Road, E.2. 146
St. Andrew's Hospital, Devons Road, E.3. 433
St. Clement's Hospital, 2a, Bow Road, E.3. 128
The Minister of Health decided that in order to improve the hospital services in the area
and to further the expansion of medical education undertaken by teaching hospitals, the Queen
Elizabeth Hospital for Children be transferred from the North East Metropolitan Regional
Hospital Board to the administration of the Board of Governors of the Hospital for Sick
Children, Great Ormond Street, and the Mile End and St. Clement's Hospitals to the administration
of the Board of Governors of the London Hospital. The transfers are to take effect as
from 1st April, 1968.
LABORATORY FACILITIES
Bacteriological investigations for infectious diseases are carried out on behalf of the
health department by the Regional Hospital Board's Group Laboratory at Mile End Hospital and
for infection of food samples are carried out by the Public Health Laboratory Service
(directed by the Medical Research Council for the Ministry of Health) at County Hall, S.E.I.
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