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No. of
Asylums. Deaths.
Banstead 6
Cane Hill 2
Caterham 2
Claybury 13
Colney Hatch 9
Darenth 1
Dartford Heath 2
Hanwell 5
Leavesden 16
Hospitals for Infectious Disease.
Eastern 20
North Eastern 25
North Western 10
South Eastern 4
Park 1
Smallpox Ships 5
General Hospitals.
Charing Cross 4
Freidenheim 4
Great Northern 1
German 6
Guy's 1
Hospital of St. John and St.
Elizabeth 1
King's College 3
London 21
Metropolitan 45
Middlesex 2
Mildmay 5
No. of
General Hospitals—continued. Deaths.
North Eastern (Children) 16
Paddington (Children) 1
Gt. Ormond St. (Children) 21
St. Bartholomew's 82
St. Thomas's 2
University College 2
Boyal Free 2
Homoeopathic 1
Hospitals for Special Diseases.
Disease of the Chest, Chelsea 1
Disease of the Chest, City of
London 1
Lying-in, City of London 5
Hospital for Women, Soho 1
Hospital for Women, Euston 1
North London Consumption 1
St. Mark's Hospital 1
Infirmaries and Workhouses.
Bethnal Green Infirmary 3
Camberwell Infirmary 1
Hackney Infirmary 2
Islington Infirmary 1
Other Institutions.
Aged Pilgrim's Asylum 1
H.M. Prison, Wormwood
Scrubbs 1
Hostel of God 1
St. Anne's House, Stoke
Newington 1
St. Luke's Home 2
Of 365 persons belonging to Shoreditch dying in public institutions without the
Borough, 220 died in general hospitals, including 38 in hospitals for children; 65 died
in the fever hospitals belonging to the Metropolitan Asylums Board, including 5 on
the small-pox ships Castalia and Atlas; 56 died in asylums, 11 in hospitals for special
diseases, 7 in workhouse infirmaries, and 6 in other institutions. Elsewhere than in
public institutions, 10 persons belonging to Shoreditch died beyond the limits of the
Borough.
Altogether during 1901, 821 persons belonging to Shoreditch died in public
institutions.
SICKNESS AMONGST THE POOR.
During the year 1901 some 3,383 cases of illness came under the care of the
district medical officers at the parish dispensary, as compared with 3,267 cases in
1900. An analysis of the cases is contained in Table VII (see Appendix). Diseases of
the respiratory organs were responsible for a large proportion of the cases, of which
872 were acute and chronic bronchitis. There were also a considerable number of