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Deaths of residents occurring in public institutions are allotted to the respective sub-districts
according to the addresses of the deceased as given by the registrars, and, in addition, are classified
under the heading Public Institutions.
The subjoined table, being a summary of Table VIII. in Appendix I., page 92 (Table III.
in annual reports prior to 1900), shows the number of deaths from diseases comprised in the "New
List of Causes of Death," as used in the Annual Reports of the Registrar-General for England and
Wales, referred to in the following pages; to which I have added the deaths from violence, and
certain diseases comprised in the old classification under the heading Ill-defined and Not Specified
Causes, e.g., Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, terms which find no place in the New List.
GENERAL DISEASES .
No. of Deaths.
1,066
LOCAL DISEASES—
Diseases of Nervous System 123
Diseases of Organs of Special Sense 9
Diseases of Heart 196
Diseases of Blood-vessels 129
Diseases of Respiratory Organs 482
Diseases of Digestive System 158
Diseases of Lymphatic System 6
Diseases of Urinary System 105
Diseases of Generative System 11
Accidents of Childbirth 6
Diseases of Locomotive System 3
Diseases of Integumentary System 2
1,230
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE—
Accident or Negligence 79
Homicide —
Suicide 25
104
ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES 55
Total 2,455
GENERAL DISEASES.
The Deaths from the "Principal diseases of the Zymotic Class" were 268, and 69 below the
corrected decennial average (337). These deaths, of which 246 belong to the Town sub-district
and 22 to Brompton, were equivalent to 1·51 per 1,000 persons living (1·96 in the Town sub-district
and 0·45 in Brompton) as compared with 1·81 in 1901, the decennial average being 1·96.
The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 1·77 per 1,000 (2·23 in 1902); the decennial
average being 2·70.

With the exception of whooping-cough, the mortality from all of the above-named diseases
was below the average.