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A large proportion of the deaths returned by the Somerset House
authorities occurred in county asylums amongst persons removed
from the workhouse on magistrates' orders. The exact previous
residence of these persons is not stated, and could not be ascertained
without considerable difficulty. It would be manifestly unfair to
allocate these asylum deaths to the East sub-district in which the
workhouse is situated. They are, therefore, distributed for purposes
of death-rate calculation amongst the three sub-districts in proportion
to the deaths known to have occurred among residents of those
districts.
DEATH RATE.
We show a mortality rate, upon the basis of the estimated population
for the year 1900, of 21.73. This is a decrease of 1.0 per
thousand below the rate of the previous year; but the proportion
to the general Metropolitan rate is unaltered. This last has also
decreased, and stands at three and a half per thousand below the
mortality rate for Bethnal Green. The rate for the whole of
London was 18.3, against 19.3 for the previous year.