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St Giles (Camden) 1894
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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These deaths were equal to 0.4 per cent. of the total
deaths.
Throughout England and Wales the deaths in the
course of the year included 12,496 cases, or 2.5 per cent.
In all London, 651, or 0.8 per cent.
Deaths in Public Institutions.
(Within the District.)
I. The Workhouse, Endell Street.
The total number of inmates during 1894 was:—
Parishioners of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and St. George,
Bloomsbury 605
Do. Wandsworth 43
Do. Bethnal Green 36
Do. Strand 1
Total 685
The number of deaths during the four quarters of the
year was:—
1st Quarter 55
2nd Quarter 35
3rd Quarter 22
4th Quarter 29
Total 141
equivalent to an annual death-rate of 20.5 per 1,000.
This rate is calculated from the total number of deaths
in the Workhouse, and does not include the deaths of
parishioners at Cleveland Street Sick Asylum.