Metropolitan workhouse infirmaries, &c. : Copy of the report of Dr. Edward Smith, Poor Law inspector and medical officer to the Poor Law Board, on the Metropolitan Workhouse infirmaries and sick wards / (Viscount Enfield).

  • Smith, Edward, 1818?-1874.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Metropolitan workhouse infirmaries, &c. : Copy of the report of Dr. Edward Smith, Poor Law inspector and medical officer to the Poor Law Board, on the Metropolitan Workhouse infirmaries and sick wards / (Viscount Enfield). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    3* TABLE No. 7. Duties and Emoluments of the Medical Officer. Total Number of Number on Medical Officer’s E M O I. tl MF.MT S. Medical Devoted. Officer finds — Inmates.* Books.* Salary. Extras. Drugs. Hours. £. £. ] Lambeth, St. Mary - 879 500 300 20 to 30 none - Two-thirds of day 2 St. Saviour’s - 405 140 100 none - all - - 1 to 3 3 Bermondsey, St. Mary Magdalen 531 114 80 33 chiefly - 2 4; St. Olave’s ... - 277 103 120 15 none . 1 (all.) district also. 5 St. George-the-Martyr - 404 154 100 70 chiefly - 1J 6 Greenwich ... - 884 391 200 - ditto - 6 7 St. Marylebone - - 1,703 414 950 none - all - - 6 and the whole time of the assistant. 8 St. Giles - - 667 80 250 15 to 20 none - 6 (all.) 9 St. Martin-in-the-Fields 437 82 150 none - chiefly - n 10 Strand .... - 556 175 105 25 to 27 little - 4 with assistant and dis- penser. 11 Holborn - - 459 157 125 48 chiefly - 01 ~ u 12 Clerkemvell, St. James - 529 214 130 lunaev certi- ditto . 0 ficates. 13 Shoreditch, St. Leonard - 784 414 126 none - none - 4 14 Whitechapel ... - 692 367 / l 75 75 10 1 10 / none - J l 1 1 \ 15 City of London ... - 844 470 275 25 none - 5 Mile-End Old Town - r 200 11 ) none 16 - 530 120 200 37 J { 2 [and district. 17 Stepney .... - 567 663 120 12 none - 4 school, 60 18 Poplar .... - 472 130 50 46 none . 3 or 4. 19 St. Margaret, Westminster - - 179 100 none - chiefly - 2 20 St. James, Westminster - 614 224 350 none - all - - 2 21 Kensington ... - 440 254 85 80 all - _ 3 and in district 22 St. Margaret, Kensington - - 647 400 160 5 s. per case chiefly - 3 and district. of midwifery in district. 23 St. George, Hanover-square - 265 100 { 100 1 100 J little - ditto { 2 1 24 Hackney .... - 613 119 130 - ditto - 1| tO 2 25 East London ... - 653 228 125 20 ditto - 2 26 Islington, St. Mary - 470 205 160 lunacy certi- none 2 ficates. 27 St. George at Brompton - 320 80 to 90 ICO _ t chiefly - 2 28 Chelsea .... - 453 140 100 70 all - - 2 29 Fulham .... - 312 140 to 150 50 24 none . 0 Rotherhithe, St Mary and 1 for dispenser. 30 - — 57 35 1 chiefly - 31 St. George-in-the East - 770 255 100 60 none - 5 32 St. Pancras ... - 1,960 230 to 240 f l 160 1 85 J 40 none * / l IK* 33 Paddington ... - 385 228 60 40 to 60 none - 2£ * These numbei 's vary with the season of the year. 0*70