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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
London County Council 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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General Hospitals—
Institutions.
Table VI (6)—
| Institution. | Acute infectious disease | Influenza. | Tuberculosis. | Malignant disease | Rheumatism (6). | Venereal disease | Child-birth. | Mental disease | Senile decay and senile dementia | Violence. | Other diseases classed as:— | Other diseases. W) | Total. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | Puerperal fever. | Other. (e). | Nervous | Respiratory. | Circulatory. | Digestive. | Genitourinary. | Skin | |||||||||||
| Public Health Institutions (a). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| City of London | 2 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 3 | _ | 10 | 385 | 61 | 10 | 78 | 52 | 102 | 8 | 16 | 61 | 141 | 967 |
| Constance Road | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 6 | 5 | — | 4 | 130 | 135 | 11 | 80 | 71 | 158 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 38 | 703 |
| Fulham | — | — _ | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 72 |
| Hackney | 2 | 10 | 2 | — | 16 | 3 | 5 | — | 26 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 35 | 56 | 101 | 26 | 7 | 16 | 42 | 386 |
| Hammersmith | — | 4 | _ | — | 7 | 6 | — | — | — | 1 | 49 | 4 | 19 | 24 | 33 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 16 | 187 |
| Holborn and Finsbury | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 3 | — | — | 46 | 16 | 21 | 122 | 82 | 189 | 54 | 13 | 55 | 79 | 734 |
| St. Alfege's | 2 | — | — | — | 10 | 11 | — | — | 19 | 387 | 215 | 6 | 98 | 56 | 67 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 42 | 938 |
| St. Mary Abbots | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | — | 28 | 4 | 64 | 5 | 27 | 23 | 108 | 10 | 3 | _ | 34 | 330 |
| St. Pancras | — | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 326 | 113 | 13 | 47 | 20 | 41 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 41 | 617 | |
| South Grove | — | 3 | — | 1 | 17 | 11 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 29 | 11 | 49 | 63 | 142 | 40 | 40 | 23 | 38 | 470 |
| Total | 30 | 30 | 25 | 25 | 98 | 64 | 20 | — | 88 | 1,294 | 705 | 90 | 570 | 461 | 963 | 164 | 113 | 188 | 476 | 5,404 |
| Public Assistance Institutions (a). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chelsea | 38 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | — | 54 | 9 | 56 | 6 | 44 | 33 | 43 | 38 | 13 | 82 | 67 | 503 |
| Islington | 6 | 36 | 6 | — | 18 | 8 | 9 | — | 24 | 316 | 21 | 21 | 162 | 187 | 143 | 42 | 26 | 59 | 254 | 1,338 |
| Ladywell | 3 | — | 2 | — | 8 | 7 | — | — | — | 3 | 52 | 7 | 28 | 68 | 63 | 25 | 8 | 17 | 69 | 360 |
| Newington | 2 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 1 | — | 1 | 125 | 22 | 24 | 78 | 259 | 255 | 88 | 53 | 68 | 86 | 1,109 |
| Poplar | 9 | 33 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | — | — | 1 | 8 | 32 | 9 | 42 | 79 | 181 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 77 | 533 |
| St. Marylebone | 3 | 42 | 3 | — | 4 | 20 | 1 | — | 152 | 218 | 64 | 48 | 111 | 117 | 131 | 81 | 16 | 60 | 261 | 1,332 |
| Waterloo House | 3 | — | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | 7 | — | 5 | 246 | 156 | 1 | 54 | 50 | 54 | — | 1 | — | 47 | 630 |
| Westminster | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 319 | 91 | 14 | 55 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 51 | 536 |
| Total | 66 | 127 | 23 | 5 | 54 | 73 | 20 | — | 237 | 1,244 | 494 | 130 | 574 | 795 | 872 | 292 | 125 | 298 | 912 | 6,341 |
| Grand Total | 96 | 157 | 49 | 30 | 152 | 135 | 40 | — | 326 | 2,538 | 1,199 | 220 | 1,144 | 1,256 | 1,835 | 456 | 238 | 486 | 1,388 | 11,745 |
(a) The following have no accommodation for the sick:—Public Health Institution St. Leonard's. Public Assistance Institutions : Bromley House, Camberwell,
Christchurch, Lambeth Home for Aged Poor, Swaffield Road Woolwich. Deaths occurring in these institutions are not included in the table. (6) Rheumatism
includes acuto rheumatism, chronic arthritis (non-infective), and non-articular manifestations of so-called "rheumatism" (muscular rheumatism, fibrositis, lumbago and
sciatica), (c) Includes normal labour. (d) Including healthy infants, etc., discharged from sick care and undefined conditions