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8
DEATHS.
Of the 3,098 deaths registered in the sub-districts of the Borough,
1,228 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 399 belonging to
Southwark, and 829 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 1,263. Of this very large number as many as 729 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 35.7.
When those persons who were non-parishoners, but who died in our
Borough have been deducted, and the outlying deaths added, the actual
or "corrected" number of deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area is
found to be 3,532, of which number 1,905 were males, and 1,627 females.
The death-rate when calculated on this "corrected" number is 18.4
per 1,000 inhabitants for the whole Borough for the year 1911, as against
a rate of 15.9 for 1910.