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1927 22
Hospital, 21 in the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 16 in the Eastern Fever
Hospital, 17 in the Middlesex Hospital, 10 in the City of London Maternity
Hospital, and 40 in the Metropolitan Hospital.
These 821 deaths represented 19.9 per cent, of all the deaths registered in
the year.
Within and Without the Boroughs—The deaths of Islingtonians
numbered 2,206 and were equal to 53.5 per cent, of the total deaths registered
during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—
104 inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside
Islington.
During the previous year (1926) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered
2,075, being 1,385 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus 690
non-inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington
Infirmary being 974, the number in the Royal Northern Hospital 118. The
deaths of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions outside the Borough were 755.
The total deaths in all Institutions, 2,140; and the proportion per 100 deaths from
all causes, 52.3.
Transferable Deaths.—During the year 50 deaths that had occurred in
outlying Institutions and other places outside the Borough were transferred by
the Registrar-General to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Fevers—Typhus,
Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhceal Diseases.
During the year 126 persons died from these diseases, the death-rate being
0.38 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.50 in the corresponding period
last year, and a decennial average mortality of 243 and a death-rate of 0.74 per
1,000.
In London the death-rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.39, while in the
six Boroughs encircling the death-rate was 0.32.
Locally the deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts and Wards were as
follows :—