Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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BETHNAL GREEN INFIRMARY.
Quarter ending.
Admissions.
Discharges.
Deaths.
Births.
25th March, 1885
648
510
119
10
24th June, 1885
557
554
78
21
563
485
81
13
25th December, 1885
641
398
83
14
Total
2409
1947
361
58
Dr. Knox has kindly furnished me with the above particulars.
The admissions were 215 in excess of the previous year. The births
wore less by 11, and the deaths exceeded those of last year by 13.
QUEEN ADELAIDE'S DISPENSARY.
The Medical Report of the Charity gives the following results:—
Patients under medical treatment at the commencement
of 1885 1330
Now patients admitted who have had advice and
medicine gratis at the Dispensary or at their own
homes 4253
Visited at their own homes 971
Have died 83
Still under medical treatment 2179
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE
CHEST.
Medical Report for the year 1885.
Number of patients treated in hospital for 1885 989
Died 95
Relieved 894
The "relieved" include a considerable number of patients
entirely cured.