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Shoreditch 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Elsewhere than in public institutions, eight persons not belonging to
Shoreditch died within the Borough.
In the subjoined table are set forth the various institutions outside Shoreditch
with the numbers of persons belonging to the Borough dying therein : —
No. of
Asylums. Deaths.
Banstead 8
Belmont 1
Cane Hill 1
Caterham 2
City of London 1
Claybury 8
Colney Hatch 6
Dartford Heath 4
Hanwell 3
Horton 8
Leavesden 11
Lung Grove 7
Manor 1
Tooting Bee 8
Hospitals tor Infectious Disease.
Eastern 9
North Eastern 25
South Eastern 4
South Western 1
General Hospitals.
Evelina (Children) 2
Freidenheim 1
French 1
German 9
Great Northern 1
Gt. Ormond Street (Children) 21
Vincent's Square (Infants) 2
Italian 1
King's College 2
London 26
Metropolitan 85
Mildmay 8
General Hospitals—continued, No of Deaths
Middlesex 2
Queen's (Children) 67
St. Bartholomew's 103
Hospitals for Special Diseases, &c.
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea 1
Lying-in, City of London 7
Chest Hospital, Bethnal Green 2
Homcepathic 2
Infirmaries and Workhouses.
Bethnal Green Infirmary 8
Bishop Stortford Workhouse 1
Camberwell Workhouse 1
Islington Infirmary 1
Holborn Infirmary, Mitcham 4
Hackney Infirmary 2
St. Pancras Infirmary 1
St. George's Infirmary 2
St. George's Workhouse 2
Whitechapel Infirmary 2
Other Institutions.
Bethnal House, Bethnal Green 1
St. Joseph's Hospice 3
St. Anne's House 1
Central London Sick Asylum 2
Metropolitan Benefit Society
Asylum 1
Brooke House 1
H.M. Prison, Holloway 1
Of 485 persons belonging to Shoreditch dying in public institutions
situate beyond the limits of the Borough 331 died in general hospitals
including 92 in hospitals for sick children, 69 in asylums for those mentally
unsound,, 39 in the fever hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 24
in workhouses and infirmaries, 12 in hospitals for special diseases, and 10
in other institutions. Elsewhere than in public institutions 13 persons belonging
to Shoreditch died beyond the limits of the Borough.
Altogether 1,002, or nearly fifty per cent, of the deaths of persons belonging
to Shoreditch, took place in public institutions.