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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1872
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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TABLE XVI.
Public Institutions, and number of Residents therein, in Hackney and Stoke Newington. 1871.
| District. | Number of Sub-District. | Registrar's Sub-District. | Name of Institution. | Total number in Institutions including Officers, &c. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons. | Males. | Females. | ||||
| 9 | 1 | Stoke Newington. | Invalid Asylum (Hospital for Respectable Females) | 31 | — | 31 |
| Nortumberland House Lunatic Asylum | 124 | 54 | 70 | |||
| 9 | 4 | Hackney | Hackney Union Workhouse | 529 | 244 | 285 |
| London City Union Workhouse | 615 | 278 | 337 | |||
| Fever Hospital, Homerton | 294 | 139 | 155 | |||
| Small Pox Hospital | 179 | 77 | 102 | |||
| Do. Brook Road | 38 | 14 | 24 | |||
| Do. Brooksby Walk | 28 | - | 28 | |||
| Do. High Street | 35 | 23 | 12 | |||
| German Hospital | 115 | 81 | 34 | |||
| Brook House (Private Lunatic Asylum) | 140 | 64 | 76 | |||
| London Orphan Asylum, Clapton | 452 | 271 | 181 | |||
| Deaf and Dumb Asylum | 41 | - | 41 | |||
| Refuge, Dalston Lane | 76 | - | 76 | |||
| Pilgrims' Lodge | 16 | - | 16 | |||
| 9 | 5 | South Hackney | London House Lunatic Asylum | 23 | - | 23 |
| Elizabeth Fry's Refuge | 24 | - | 24 | |||
| British Penitents' Female Refuge | 47 | - | 47 | |||
| Home for Aged Christians | 15 | 5 | 10 | |||
| Ash Grove Nunnery | 15 | — | 15 | |||
| Roman Catholic Convent, Park Road | 17 | — | 17 | |||
| French Hospital Almshouse | 69 | 21 | 48 | |||
| 2923 | 1271 | 1652 | ||||