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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 67 persons
stated to have been removed into such institutions from this district, but for whom
no definite addresses could be given when the deaths were reported to the Registrars.
Fifteen of these were stated to have been removed from the Limehouse
District, 8 from St. George-in-the-East, 16 from Mile End Old Town, and 28 from
the Whitechapel District.
There were 206 deaths in public institutions of persons admitted from Common
Lodging-houses in the Borough, and nearly 30 per cent. of them died from
Consumption.
The bodies of 4 unknown persons were found drowned on the foreshore of
Shadwell and Wapping and were included in the Limehouse District returns, together
with those of 4 unknown persons who died in Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, and
5 in the Stepney Workhouse.
Eleven children with unknown addresses died at the Carshalton Infirmary; 4
were stated to have been removed from Limehouse, 4 from St. Georges, 1 from Mile
End and 2 from Whitechapel.
In the St. George's returns are included the deaths of 3 persons with unknown
addresses who died in St. George's Infirmary.
In the Mile End returns are included 7 deaths of persons who died under similar
conditions in the Mile End Infirmary, and one unknown person who died in the
street.
In the Whitechapel returns, there are included 67 deaths of persons with
unknown addresses, 62 having occurred in the Whitechapel Infirmary and Workhouse,
2 in the London Hospital, and 3 in the street.
Inhabited House Duty.
During the year 4 applications were received for certificates under the
Inland Revenue Act, 1903 for the purpose of securing exemption from inhabited
house duty.
Certificates were granted for 30 tenements, and refused for 7 tenements.