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furnished with the number of citizens who died in Institutions other than
those with which the City is connected.
The deaths from zymotic disease per 1,000 of the population was 0.51
compared with 2.22 in the Metropolis.
The deaths of children under 1 year of age to 1,000 births come out 160,
against 148 for the whole of London.
Deaths in City Institutions.
During 1901, 115 persons died in City Workhouses, Workhouse Infirmaries,
or Lunatic Asylums, or no less than 25.2 per cent. of the whole City mortality
the corresponding figure for the Metropolis (1900) being 18.3 per cent.
This high percentage is caused in the City by the excessive proportion the
number of inmates in these places (exclusive of officers and their families)
bears to our population, the ratio being about 1:25, as compared with 1:101
in the Metropolis (Census 1891).
In other words, these figures represent that 1 in every 25 citizens is an
inmate of either a Workhouse, Workhouse Infirmary or a Lunatic Asylum,
in comparison with 1 in every 101 inhabitants of the Metropolis.

It will be seen that in 1901 25.2 per cent., or 1 in every 3.9, deaths in the
City occurred in one of the above-named Institutions, compared with 18'3 per
cent., or about 1 in 5.4, in the Metropolis (1900) under analogous circumstances.
It is satisfactory to observe that the figures for the City show a marked
decrease, being 3.2 below the average for the preceding five years, but they
are, nevertheless, far too high, and compare very unfavourably with the past
in this respect. For instance, in 1862 it was stated that the previous ten
years showed that of every 100 deaths in the City 14.5, or about 1 in every 7
only, were paupers who died in City workhouses.