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Shoreditch 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE IX.
No. of Deaths.
Asylums.
Bethnal House 1
Banstead 4
Colney Hatch 8
Cane Hill 3
Darenth 2
Leavesden 16
Claybury 13
Hanwell 10
City of London 1
Manor Asylum, Epsom 1
Peckham House 1
Dartford Heath 1
Hospitals for Infectious Disease.
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.
Eastern (Homerton) 38
North Eastern (Haverstock
Hill) 8
South Western 1
South Eastern 2
North Western 14
Western 2
Northern 1
Not Metropolitan Asylums Board.
London Fever Hospital 2
General Hospitals.
St. Bartholomew's 74
Metropolitan Free 30
London 20
German 11
Guy's 3
No. of Deaths.
General Hospitals—continued.
Mildmay Mission 6
King's College 1
Feridenheim 1
Middlesex 1
Charing Cross 2
Hospitals for Special Diseases.
Royal Chest 16
City of London Chest 5
City of London Lying-in 4
Evelina (Children) 1
Great Ormond St. (Children) 15
Shadwell (Children) 1
Cancer 1
North London Consumption 1
Infirmaries and Workhouses.
Holborn Infirmary 1
Hackney 5
Bethnal Green Workhouse 1
Islington Infirmary 1
Lambeth Infirmary 1
Fulham Infirmary 1
Whitechapel Infirmary 4
Other Institutions.
H.M. Prison, Holloway 1
H.M. Prison, Wormwood
Scrubbs 2
St. Peter's Home 2
Aged Pilgrims' Asylums 1
St. Anne's House, Stoke
Newington 1
Of 343 deaths of Shoreditch parishioners in public institutions without the parish,
61 occurred in asylums, 68 in fever hospitals, 149 in general hospitals, 44 in hospitals
for special diseases, 14 in workhouses and infirmaries, and 7 in other institutions.
Elsewhere than in public institutions, 15 persons belonging to Shoreditch died outside
the parish.
SICKNESS AMONGST THE POOR.
The cases treated by the district Medical Officers at the parish dispensary during
the year numbered 3,441. The numbers in previous years are as set out below:—

TABLE X.

Year189318941895189618971898
Number of Cases5,3834,2974,6904,0323,5263,314