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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 Pancras 1893
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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VITAL STATISTICS.
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Births,—The number of births occuring in Public Institutions during the
year 1893 was as follows:—
Homes of Hope, Gray's Inn Lane Sub-District 38
Workhouse, Camden Town Sub-District 181
Total 219
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
| Sub-District. | No. of Inmates. | Parochial Institutions. | Daily Average No of Inmates. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parishioners. | Non-Parish-ioners. | Total. | ||||
| Regent's Park | 30 | St, Saviour's Cancer Hospital. | 30 | l | 6 | 7 |
| Tottenham Court. | 425 | University College Hospital. | 160 | 169 | 171 | 340 |
| „ „ | Home Hospitals | 15 | 3 | 7 | 10 | |
| „ „ | Central London Sick Asylum. | 250 | 8 | 215 | 223 | |
| Gray's Inn Lane | 165 j | Royal Free Hospital. . | 150 | 65 | 13C | 195 |
| „ „ | Central Throat & Ear Hospital | 15 | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
| Somers Town | 85 j | Temperance Hospital | 50 | 58 | 18 | 76 |
| „ „ | Hospital for Women | 35 | 8 | 12 | 20 | |
| Camden Town | 1535 j | Workhouse | 1500 | 293 | 8 | 301 |
| „ „ | North West London Hospital. | 35 | 49 | 18 | 67 | |
| Kentish Town | 500 | Infirmary | 500 | 309 | 4 | 313 |
| Total in Parochial Institutions | 2740 | 964 | 594 | 1558 | ||
| In Extra Parochial Institutions | 1860 | 564 | .. | 564 | ||
| Totals | 4600 | 1528 | 594 | 2122 | ||
Extra-Parochial Institutions.—The Public Institutions situated outside the
boundaries of St. Pancras, and the daily average number of inmates belonging
to St. Pancras housed by them are as follows: —
St. Ann's Home, Streatham— a Branch of the Pancras Workhouse 419
Holborn and other Workhouses 136
Extra Metropolitan Lunatic Asylums 491
Inbecile and Idiot Asylums 759
Fever and Small-Pox Asylums 55
1860