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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

Shoreditch 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE IX.

TABLE IX.

Institution.Parishioners.Non-Parishioners.Total.
Holborn Union Workhouse241241
Shoreditch Workhouse3689377
Hoxton House Asylum23941
North Eastern Hospital for Children237497
Convent Hospital235
Total895366761

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Elsewhere than in the above institutions, five persons died within the parish
who were not residents in Shoreditch, viz.—one killed on the Great Eastern Railway,
one killed on the North London Railway, two drowned in the Regent's Canal, and
one who died of pneumonia at No. 24, Paul Street.
In the following table are set forth the various public institutions outside
Shoreditch and the numbers of persons belonging to the parish dying therein :—

Table: TABLE X.

TABLE X.

Asylums.No. of Deaths.General Hospitals—continued.No.of Deaths.
Bethnal House3Freidenheim2
Banstead4Middlesex3
Colney Hatch15Mildmay Mission5
Cane Hill4St. Thomas3
Darenth1Westminster1
Leavesden4Universit1
Hanwell13French3
Claybury25Hospitals for Special Diseases.
St. Luke's2
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.Royal Chest12
City of London Chest1
City of London Lying-in3
Eastern (Homerton)22Evelina (children)1
North Eastern (Haverstock Hill)11Great Ormond Street (children)19
Park Fever2Cancer1
South Eastern7Shad well (Children)2
North Western2Homoeopathic1
General Hospitals.Herbert1
Central London fThrnn.M1
St. Bartholomew's65Infirmaries and Workhouses.
Metropolitan Free61
London18Hackney Infirmary5
London Temperance1Bethnal Green4
German8Other Institutions.
Royal Free2
Guy's5H.M. Prison, Holloway1
Charing Cross1St. Peter's Home1
King's College3St. Anne's Houses1