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1911
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—1,804 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,181 belonged to this borough, the remaining
623 having come here for treatment or relief. Among the latter were 431
persons who died in the Holborn Infirmary, and 97 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital, 14 in the Islington Infirmary, 7 in the London Fever
Hospital, 13 in St. Pelagia's Creche, and 10 in the Memorial Cottage Hospital.
Of the 1,181 deaths of inhabitants, 817 occurred in the Islington Infirmary,
208 in the Islington Workhouses and Schools, and 113 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital. The proportion which the 1,181 deaths bore to the borough
mortality was 24'3 per cent.
Without the Borough.—760 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions in districts of London outside
the Borough. They included, among others, 64 in the North-Eastern
Fever Hospital, 60 in the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, 97 in St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, 37 in the Colney Hatch Asylum, 51 in the Royal
Free Hospital, 45 in the University College Hospital, and 29 in Claybury
Asylum.
These 760 deaths represented 15.6 per cent. of all the deaths registered
in the year.
Within and without the Borough.—The deaths of Islingtonians in
Public Institutions numbered 1,941, and were equal to 39.9 per cent. of the
total deaths registered during the year.
Fatal accidents or sudden deaths outside the Borough —
Forty-seven inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places
outside Islington.