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Of the total admissions into the Mortuary 19 were cases of suffocation
caused through the carelessness of parents, and 15 of the subjects were
either still-born or were prematurely born.
Forty-one of the cases referred to non-residents.
Zymotic diseases were responsible for 8 of the deaths; 41 were due
to different forms of violence, generally accident; diseases of the brain and
chest caused most of the remaining deaths.
REGISTERED COMMON LODGING-HOUSES, 1899.
Name of Street.
No. of Houses
Registered.
Deaths in
Infirmary and
elsewhere of
Lodgers.
Brick lane, Nos. 19, 19½, 27, 29, 63½ and 74
6
Buckle street, No. 22.
1
-
Commercial street, Nos. 39 and 41
2
17
Dorset street, Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20,
20a, 28, 29, 30 and 35
14
25
Flower and Dean street, Nos. 5, 56, 57 and 58
4
9
Garden court, No. 1
1
1
George yard, Nos. 27 and 29
2
—
Grace's alley, No. 6
1
—
Great Garden street, Nos. 16 and 18
2
3
Great Pearl street, No. 15
1
1
Gun street, Nos. 7 and 34
2
—
Hanbury street, Nos. 40, 42, 44 and 46
4
—
Heneage street, No. 1
1
18
Lambeth street, No. 80
1
—
Leman street, Nos. 66 and 86
2
4
Lolesworth street, Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
5
4
Old Montague street, No. 73
1
—
Osborn place, Nos. 1, 1a, 2, 3, 3a and 4
6
19
Paternoster row, Nos. 3, 4 and 5
3
10
Princelet street, No. 12
1
15
Queen street, Mile End New Town, No. 1
1
—
Thrawl street, Nos. 16, 17 and 28
3
11
Upper East Smithfield, Nos. 18 and 40
2
4
Wellclose square, No. 17
1
—
Wentworth street, No. 90
1
24
Whitechapel road, Nos. 77 and 232
2
18
White's row, Nos. 8, 28 and 29
3
5
Totals
73
188
The Deaths took place as Follows :—
In the Whitechapel Infirmary 138
„ London Hospital 17
,, South Grove Workhouse 6
„ Ilford Asylum 3
„ Shadwell Hospital 1
„ Banstead Asylum 1
„ Guy's Hospital 1
„ Colney Hatch Asylum 1
Found Drowned in River Lea 1
„ Dead in Cambridge Road 1
„ Dead in Vallance Road 1
At the several Lodging Houses 17
188