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DEATHS.
Of the 2,866 deaths registered in the sub-districts of the Borough,
1,114 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 413 belonging to
Southwark, and 701 to other sanitary districts. 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 1,218. Of this very large number as many as 749 died
in the Southwark Infirmary at Champion Hill. The remainder, with but
few exceptions, died in the large public hospitals.
The percentage of persons dying away from home in relation to the
total number of deaths belonging to the Borough was 36.2.
When those persons who were non-parishoners, but who died in our
Borough 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 3,360, of which number 1,802 were males, and 1,558 females.
The death-rate when calculated on this "corrected" number is 15.9
per 1,000 inhabitants for the whole Borough for the year 1910, as against
a rate of 16.7 for 1909.