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The percentage proportion of deaths in public institutions in the Metropolis in 1906, was 38.3;
viz., 19.3 in workhouses and workhouse infirmaries; 1.6 in Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals;
14.3 in other hospitals, and 3T in public lunatic and imbecile asylums. The Registrar.General in
his Annual Summary states that "about one in every five deaths occurred in a workhouse or workhouse
infirmary, one in every 62 in a Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital, one in every 7 in some
other hospital, and one in every 33 in a public lunatic or imbecile asylum." The increase in the
number of deaths in public institutions has been great and continuous for many years.
The borough Infirmary.—i am indebted to Dr. h. Percy Potter, the medical superintendent,
for the statistics of mortality at this important institution. The deaths, the causes of which
are set out in the table below, were 541., compared with 460, 471, and 552, in the preceding three
years respectively, and were equal to 21.7 per cent., or more than one.fifth, of all the deaths recorded
in the borough. The quarterly numbers were 149, 154, 112, and 126; 275 deaths, therefore,
occurred in the first and fourth or colder quarters, and 266 in the second and third or warmer
quarters of the year. The deaths included 252 of males and 289 of females. The ages at death
were:—Under one year, 71 (compared with 65, 38, and 72, in the preceding three years respectively);
between one and sixty, 231 (compared with 218, 237, and 270, in the preceding three
years), and at sixty and upwards, 239 (compared with 177, 198, and 210, in the preceeding three
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*The deaths registered during the year were 539.