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DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered during the year was 1,918
(males 1023, and females 895). Of these 531 occurred in Public
Institutions outside the borough, 68 occurred in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's South Eastern Hospital, of which 64 were non.
parishioners, so that the actual number of deaths excluding non.
parishioners is 1854, and upon these figures the statistics are based.
The death-rate for the borough was equal to an annual rate of
16.0 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 14.3 for 1905, 16.0
for the year 1904, and 15.4 for 1903, per 1,000 persons living, with an
average of 15.8 for the past 10 years.
The number of deaths that occurred in the borough itself, of
parishioners only, was 1,323, giving a death-rate of 11.4 per 1,000 of
the population. The death-rate in England and Wales was 15.4, in
the 75 great towns was 15.9, in the 142 smaller towns 14.5, and in
the County of London as a whole 15.1.

(These death-rates are calculated on the census population of 1901.)
Deaths of residents occurring in outlying public institutions are
allocated to their respective wards according to the addresses of the
deceased as received from the Registrar.General's Department.
Table No. 11 gives a list of the institutions in which the deaths
occurred.
MORTALITY AT GROUP OF AGES.
The 1,854 deaths recorded (of parishioners only) during the year
included 748 children under five years of age. The deaths of 472
children occurred under one year, 276 under five years, 63 between
five and fifteen, 69 between fifteen and twenty.five, 533 between the