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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
eorrected average. 20 of these deaths occurred in the
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, 1 in the Cottage Home, and
1 in St. Peter's Hospital. In external institutions, 10
deaths occurred in the Union Infirmary, the corrected
total being 40.
Erom violence, 29 deaths occurred, 1 of these
being in the Union Infirmary, and 3 in the Prison.
Two adults belonging to other parishes were found
drowned in the river Thames, one adult was killed at
the Electric Lighting station, and one child accidentally
suffocated. In outlying institutions 3 deaths occurred,
making the corrected total 24.
infantile 251 deaths of infants under one year were
Mortality, registered, 6 of these occurring within the
district among persons not belonging thereto. 24 deaths
occurred in external institutions, making a corrected
total of 269. In 1895 the uncorrected total was 232
and the corrected 237.
The percentage of these deaths to the total mortality
was, uncorrected 28.3, and corrected 36*03.
Calculated from the number of registered births
during the year, viz., 1,754, the infantile mortality was
143, compared with 137.9 in 1895, and 121 per 1,000
in 1894.
The corrected infantile mortality was 158 per 1,000
registered births, compared with 140 in 1895.
The cause of this increase was the large mortality
from measles and whooping cough.
In 1896 for the whole Metropolis the death-rate
was 160 per 1,000 registered births, while for the 33