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1903
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The record of the mortality of the Borough would not be complete without
a statement as to the places where the deaths occurred. The tables in the
following pages have, therefore, been prepared, and they show that out of the
4,839 deaths, registered during the year 1903, no less than 1,539, or 31.'8 per
cent., died in Public or Charitable Institutions. This is a most serious fact,
for few people, it is ventured to be asserted, could have had any idea that so
many persons sought medical relief in their last illnesses. The figures for
London are not available for 1903, but in the Registrar-General's Report for
1901, they show that as many as 39.1 per cent. of the total deaths occurred
in Metropolitan Public or Charitable Institutions, while the same report a'so
indicates that the proportion in England and Wales, in the same year, was
only 15.1 per cent.
Within the Borough.—1,467 persons died in the Public and Charitable
Institutions of Islington during the year, of whom only 912 could be described
as belonging to this borough, the remaining 555 having come here for treatment
or relief, and are therefore, not included in the deaths proper to Islington, but
have been referred by the Registrar-General to Holborn and other places.
Among the latter were 407 persons who died in the Holborn Infirmary, and
83 who died in the Great Northern Central Hospital.
Of the 912 deaths of inhabitants, 654 occurred in the Islington Workhouse
Infirmary, 101 in the Islington Workhouses, and 122 in the Great Northern
Central Hospital. The proportion which the 912 deaths bore to the borough
mortality was i8'9 per cent.
Without the Borough.—627 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions of London situated
outside the borough. They included, amongst others, 54 in the North-Eastern
Fever Hospital, 26 in University Hospital, 38 in the Childrens' Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, 74 in St Bartholomew's Hospital, 31 in the Middlesex Hospital,
49 in the Royal Free Hospital, and 26 in the Colney Hatch Asylum.