View report page

36
The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street.
The following statistics refer to this hospital, which continues under
its able management to render valuable assistance to a number of
deserving poor married women during their confinement.
During the year 142 women were delivered of 139 children born
alive and 3 still-born; of the living children 67 were males, and 72
females.
Only 17 of the mothers were parishioners, viz., 5 of St. George,
Bloomsbury; 6 of St. Giles, South; and 6 of St. Giles, North. The
remaining 122 resided in various metropolitan parishes before they
came into the hospital for their confinement.
There were 5 deaths (non-parishioners) in the hospital, viz., 3
mothers and 2 children; of the mothers, one died, aged 39, from
placenta prsevia; another, aged 27, from pneumonia; the other, aged
41, from cancer uteri; of the children, both died shortly after birth,
one from marasmus, the other from syphilis.
The Infants' Home, No, 35, Great Coram Street.
Two children died at this Infants' Home or Nursery:--1, aged 6
months, from atrophy and debility, the other, aged 6 weeks, from
syphilis ; both were returned as children of female domestic servants.
The Bloomsbury Dispensary, Great Russell Street.
The following interesting tabulated report of the cases, shows that
the Institution has again done good service during the past year to the
sick poor of the District.
The Resident Medical Officer, Dr. Steele, and the Staff promptly
aid us in our endeavours to prevent the spread of infectious disease.