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and Dr. Ilott, I gather that during the year the Infirmary contained
a weekly average of 584 patients, the highest and lowest numbers in
any week being respectively 663 and 500. In the Workhouse at
South Grove the weekly average of inmates was 281, and the highest
and lowest numbers in any week were respectively 341 and 225.
A total of 2,620 new cases were admitted into the Infirmary,
representing a weekly average of 50, The admissions each week
varied from 41 to 104.
The District Medical Officers received a total of 3,285 new
Orders for attendance upon patients either at the Dispensary or at
the residence of the patients, and 1,891 received at once orders for
admission into the Infirmary, or into some special Hospital. The
cases here mentioned are tabulated upon Table E of the Appendix
(Page 14) which Table also contains the causes of death of London
residents for the year 1885, and also the causes of death of the
Whitechapel District residents for the two years 1884 and 1885.

*Exclusive, as regards London, of over 500 deaths from Small-pox in
the Hospitals, Camps, and Ships belonging to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, but inclusive, as regards Whitechapel, of deaths
occurring outside the District.