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[1906
the deaths represented 29.2 per cent. of the deaths from all causes, they
represented 31.5 per cent. in 1906, while the mean percentage for ten years
has been 27.4.
Within the Borough.—In 1906 the total number of deaths in local
institutions numbered 1,574, which 955 were of Islingtonians, and 619 were
of strangers who had come into the borough for treatment at a local institution
or at the Holborn Infirmary, which is situated in Upper Holloway, and
of whom 418 died.
Inhabitants.-Of the 955 who died, 717 were registered from the Islington
Infirmary, 98 from the Workhouses, and 106 from the Great Northern Hospital.
Besides these, there were 2 deaths in St. Pelagia's Creche, 4 in the
Tufnell Park Nursing Institution, 3 in the London Fever Hospital, 11 in the
Memorial Cottage Hospital, 2 in the Invalid Home, Aubert Park, and 5 in the
Clothworkers' Almshouses (vide Table LXX.)
Non-inhabitants.-In addition to the deaths of 418 persons in the Holborn
Infirmary already referred to, there were 28 others who died in the Islington
Infirmary. 94 in the Great Northern Central Hospital, 6 in the Aged Pilgrims'
Asylum, 19 in St. Pelagia's Creche, 12 in the Aged Blind Home, 2 in Tufnell
Park Nursing Institution, 10 in the London Fever Hospital, 10 in the
Memorial Cottage Hospital, and 3 in the Invalid Home, Highbury Terrace
(vide Table LXX.)
Without the Borough.-No less than 648 Islingtonians died in 1906
in 84 institutions outside the borough, whither they had gone for treatment,
and the names of which are set out in Table LXXII. It must be noted,
however, that as many as 76 of these deaths occurred in the Children's
Hospital, Great Ormond Street, 69 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 51 in the
London Temperance Hospital, 38 in University College Hospital, and 36
in the North Western Fever Hospital. It is to be noted also that there were
21 deaths in the Claybury Lunatic Asylum.
Within and without the Borough.-Altogether 1,603 inhabitants of
Islington, or 31.5 per cent., of the total deaths of Islingtonians, died in Public
Institutions which were situated within or without the Borough.
Accidental and Sudden Deaths without the Borough.-36 such
deaths occurred in the several Metropolitan Districts, and are set out at the
end of Table LXXII. In the preceding year they numbered 31.