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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in out-lying public institutions
was 582, compared with 543 in 1901.
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Of these, 264 occurred in the Union Infirmary, 260 in General
and Special Hospitals, 23 in the Small-pox Hospital, and 18 in
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Fever Hospitals.
There were also 17 deaths of Borough residents in other
places not public institutions outside the Borough, three of which
occurred in the River Thames. These are included in the Table
under the head of General and Special Hospitals, etc.
In 1901 only 15 deaths occurred in the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's Hospitals outside the Borough, compared with 41 in 1902,
but the increase is largely due to the fact that 24 deaths occurred
from Small-pox, compared with only three in 1901.
The four Tables which follow are inserted by order of the
Local Government Board.
It is important to note that all rates per I,OOO in these Tables
for the year 1902 are lessened by the fraction so as to compare
more exactly with the previous decennium.
Table I. shows the births, birth-rate, deaths, and death-rate
per 1,000 for the whole Borough for the year, and for the ten
preceding years ; the total deaths of children under one year of age
is also given, and the rate per 1,000 births registered.
The nett deaths in the Table do not correspond with the
number in Table IV. as 24 deaths belonging to other places which
did not occur in public institutions have to be deducted, giving an
absolute nett number of 3,304, and a death-rate of 13.43 per 1,000.
Table II. shows the population, the number of births and
deaths registered, and the number of deaths under one year of
age, for the whole Borough, as well as for the various sub-districts.
It also shows these for each year since 1891, and is to a large
extent a complete history of the mortality of the Borough for the
last ten years.