Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898
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entered and left the City on the day the counting
was made.
MORTALITY.
During the year under review, 957 deaths
were registered in the District, including *615
persons dying in the City, but not belonging
thereto.
Deducting the latter we have to deal with 342
deaths, to which we must add 132 persons who
died at City Institutions in outside districts, where
they were registered. The mortality, therefore,
upon which our death rate is calculated is 474.
DEATHS IN CITY INSTITUTIONS.
During 1898, 132 persons died in City Workhouses,
Workhouse Infirmaries or Lunatic
Asylums, or no less than 27.9 per cent. of the
whole City mortality, the corresponding figure
for the Metropolis being 16.8 per cent.
This high percentage is caused in the City by
the enormous proportion the number of
* In St. Bartholomew's Hospital alone 613 deaths of non-resident
occurred.