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Homeless.—During the year there occurred in Lunatic Asylums the deaths
of 117 persons, said to have been removed from addresses in this Borough to those
Institutions, but no definite addresses could be given when the deaths were reported
to the Registrars. 48 were above 65 years of age, 26 were said to have been removed
from the Limehouse District; 18 from St. George's; 17 from Mile End; 56 from
Whitechapel.
Five unknown persons were found drowned.
10 unknown persons were killed in the streets; 2 in Limehouse; 3 in Mile End;
5 in Whitechapel.
There were 16 deaths of unknown persons in Public Institutions in the Borough,
viz.:—15 in the Whitechapel Infirmary and Workhouse, and 1 in the London
Hospital.
There were 14 deaths in the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum of persons stated
to have been removed from the Limehouse District, and 9 from Mile End.
Spies.
One spy only was shot in the Tower of London. He was a commercial traveller,
aged 37, from Lima, Peru.
Notifiable Diseases.
5,360 notifications were received, this number included 1,221 notifications of
diseases of a tubercular nature. 2,160 were removed to various Hospitals and
Infirmaries. Excluding Measles—which was not a notifiable disease in 1915—the
number of notifications of infectious diseases was 1,034 less in 1916 than in the
previous year.
In addition to the above, 11 soldiers were notified to be suffering from infectious
diseases, viz.:—7 from Diphtheria and 4- from Measles.
Of the infectious Diseases:—
911 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of 18.2 per 1,000
of the population.
902 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate of 20.3 per 1,000
of the population.
1,498 belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of 143 per 1,000 of the
population.
828 belonged to Whitechapel District, or at the rate of 13.7 per 1,000 of the
population.