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Shoreditch 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: Elsewhere than in public institutions seven persons not belonging to Shoreditch died within the Borough. In the subjoined table are set forth the various public institutions outside Shoreditch with the numbers of persons belonging to the Borough dying therein:—

Elsewhere than in public institutions seven persons not belonging to Shoreditch died within the Borough. In the subjoined table are set forth the various public institutions outside Shoreditch with the numbers of persons belonging to the Borough dying therein:—

Asylums.No. of Deaths.General Hospitals—continued.No. of Deaths.
Banstead7North Eastern (Children)43
Cane Hill3Poplar1
Caterham1Queen Charlottes1
City of London Stone1Royal Free3
Claybury6St. Bartholomew's76
Colney Hatch7St. George s1
Darenth3St. Mary's1
Dartford Heath6St. Peter s1
Friern Barnet1Shadwell (Children)1
Grove Hall1University2
Hanwell4Victoria, Southend1
Horton4Hospitals for Special Diseases.
Leavesden11Cancer1
Licensed Victuallers,Peckham1Epileptic Colony, Epsom1
London County, Ilford2Heart Hospital, Soho1
Manor1Lying-in, City of London5
Metropolitan Benefit Society1Mount Vernon Consumption1
Tooting Bee15Royal London Ophthalmic .1
Hospitals fob Infectious DiseaseVictoria Park, Chest2
Eastern3Infirmaries and Workhouses. Bethnal Green Infirmary and Workhouse5
Joyce Green2
North Eastern24
South Western1
General Hospitals.Holborn Infimary7
Charing Cross1
Hackney Infimary1
German9
St. George's Infirmary6
Gr. Ormoud Street (Children)24St. Pancras Workhouse1
Guy's2Wood Green1
Friedenheim4Whitechapel Infirmary2
Homœopathic1Other Institutions.
Infants', Hampstead1
King's College5H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubbs1
London18
London Temperance1St. Anne's House1
Metropolitan77St. Luke's House2
Middlesex1Hostel of God2
Mildmay9Salvation Army Maternity Home1
National1

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Of 434 persons belonging to Shoreditch dying in public institutions situate beyond
the limits of the Borough, 286 died in general hospitals including 68 in hospitals
for children; 30 died in the fever hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board; 75 died
in asylums; 12 in hospitals for special diseases; 24 in workhouses and infirmaries and
7 in other institutions. Elsewhere than in public institutions 16 persons belonging to
Shoreditch died beyond the limits of the Borough. Altogether 879 persons belonging
to Shoreditch died in public institutions. Including the sixteen persons who did not die
in public institutions 895 persons belonging to the Borough died elsewhere than in their
homes.
SICKNESS AMONGST THE POOR.
The number of cases of illness coming under the treatment of the district medical
officers in connection with the public dispensary shows a marked increase on the figures