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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in out-lying institutions was 538,
compared with 582 in 1902, and 543 in 1901.
Of these 262 occurred in the Union Infirmary, 269 in General
and Special Hospitals, and seven in the Fever Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
In 1902 there were 41 deaths in the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's Hospitals outside the Borough, of which 23 were in the
Small-pox Hospital.
It will be seen on Table V. the greater number of deaths
from notifiable diseases occurred in the Fever Hospitals at
Tooting, to which the majority of the patients in the Borough are
removed.
The total number of deaths after adding those on Table VI.
and substracting those on Table IV. was 3,073, and the deathrate
12.24 per 1,000, compared with a corrected rate of 13 43 in
1902, and 15.33 in 1901.
The next Table shows the total number of deaths in each
suD-district and in the whole Borough corrected for institutions,
as well as the corrected and uncorrected death-rates.
The death-rate in the County of London for the year 1903
was 15.6 per 1,000, compared with 17.2 in 1902, and 17.1 in 1901.
The death-rate in England and Wales during last year was
15.4 per 1,000, in the 76 great towns 16.3 per 1,000, and in the
smaller towns 14.6 per 1,000.
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