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Deaths of the Homeless and of Inmates of Common
Lodging Houses.
During the year, there occurred in Lunatic Asylums, the deaths of 54 persons
stated to have been removed into institutions from this district, but for whom
no definite addresses could be given when the deaths were reported to the
Registrars. 13 of these were stated to have been removed from the Limehouse
District, 7 from St. George-in-the-East, 10 from Mile End Old Town, and 24
from the Whitechapel District.
In addition to this, there were during the year, 205 deaths in Public Institutions,
of persons admitted thereto from Common Lodging Houses in the
Borough.
After all, this is not a very large number when it is remembered that there
are in the Borough, 40 Common Lodging Houses with nearly 6,000 beds, and in
addition, a number of houses with over 400 furnished rooms, let nightly, in a
manner similar to the ordinary Common Lodging House, and in which between
700 and 800 persons sleep every night.
As the Borough possesses a river frontage of two and a half miles, a number
of unknown persons are found, during the year, drowned on the foreshore.
These deaths are included in the death statistics for the districts in which the
bodies are discovered.
During the year, the bodies of ten unknown persons were found in this
Borough, eight of which are included in the Limehouse returns, one (found
drowned in the London Dock) is returned in St. George's, and one in Whitechapel.
In addition to the above, two unknown persons died in Dr. Barnardo's
Homes in this Borough. These are included in the Limehouse returns, together
with three others, whose addresses were unknown, who died in the Poplar and
Stepney Sick Asylum, and five who died in the Stepney Workhouse.
In the St. George's returns are included four persons, with unknown
addresses, who died in the St. George's Infirmary.
In the death-statistics for Mile End are included 16 deaths of persons,
who died under similar conditions in the Mile End Infirmary.
In the Whitechapel returns, there are entered 98 deaths of persons with
unknown addresses, 93 of which occurred in the Whitechapel Infirmary and
Whitechapel Workhouse, 3 in the London Hospital, and 2 in the street.