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DEATHS.
Of the 2,997 deaths registered in the sub-districts of the Borough,
1,034 occurred in the Poor-Law institutions, the various hospitals, and
other public places for the treatment of the sick found within our
boundaries. These deaths in institutions comprised 370 belonging to
Southwark, and 664 to other boroughs of the metropolis. The various
localities in which the "outlying" deaths occurred are shown in the
following table.
The number of inhabitants belonging to the Borough dying away
from home— that is, outside our boundaries in the various hospitals
and infirmaries—was 1,195. Of this very large number as many as 710
died in the Southwark Infirmary at Champion Hill. The remainder,
with but few exceptions, died at the large public hospitals.
The percentage of persons dying away from home in relation to the
total number of deaths occurring in the Borough was 33.8.
"When those persons who were non-parishioners, but who died in outBorough
have been deducted, and the out-lying deaths added, the actual
or "corrected" number of deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area is
found to be 3,528, of which number 1,878 were males, and 1,650 females.
The death-rate when calculated on this "corrected" number is 16.7
per 1,000 inhabitants for the whole Borough for the year 1909, as against
a rate of 16.3 for 1908.