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Of the 62 deaths occurring in the district of non-residents
49 took place at the West Ham Sanatorium and 6 in the
Isolation Hospital.
Of the 231 deaths of local residents taking place outside
this area, most occurred in institutions. Of these 145 occurred
at Oldchurch Hospital, 14 at the London Hospital, 10 at Brentwood
Mental Hospital, 7 at Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford,
6 at the London Fever Hospital, 5 at Great Ormond Street
Children's Hospital, and 4 each at the llford Emergency and
St. Bartholomew's Hospitals.
492 deaths in a population of 67,500, represents a death
rate of 7.29 as compared with that of England and Wales of
"11.7. This year 30.9% of the total deaths occurred in persons
over 45. as compared with 36.1 occurring last year, and with
a figure of 68 for England and Wales in 1927, showing that
the influence of the factors making for a low death rate, namely,
the introduction of a low age population more than counterbalances
the factors tending to raise the death rate to normal,
namely, the gradual progressive changes to a normal age distribution
through persons passing from the lower-than-average
to the higher-than-average group. The explanation of the
fact that in spite of this, the death rate figure is raised, may be
either that the figure taken as representing the population for
this year is too low, or that the one for last year was too high—
the death rate based on local estimated figures actually does
show a slight fall.