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Deaths of residents occurring in public institutions are allotted to the respective sub-districts
according to the addresses of the deceased as given by the registrars, and, in addition, are classified,
under the heading Public Institutions, with those of non-residents.
The subjoined table, being a summary of Table VIII. in Appendix I., page 112 (Table III.
in annual reports prior to 1900), shows the number of deaths from diseases comprised in the " New
List of Causes of Death," as used in the Annual Reports of the Registrar-General for England and
Wales, referred to in the following pages; to which I have added the deaths from violence, and
certain diseases comprised in the old classification under the heading Ill-defined and Not Specified
Causes, e.g., Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, terms which find no place in the New List.
No. of Deaths.
GENERAL DISEASES 1,049
LOCAL DISEA8ES—
Diseases of Nervous System 123
Diseases of Organs of Special Sense 4
Diseases of Heart 209
Diseases of Blood-vessels 125
Diseases of Respiratory Organs 537
Diseases of Digestive System 168
Diseases of Lymphatic System 8
Diseases of Urinary System 99
Diseases of Generative System 10
Accidents of Childbirth 4
Diseases of Locomotive System 6
Diseases of Integumentary System 4
1,292
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE—
Accident or Negligence 78
Homicide —
Suicide 22
100
ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES 66
Total 2,507
GENERAL DISEASES.
The Deaths from the "Principal diseases of the Zymotic Class" were 247, and 70 below the
corrected decennial average (317). These deaths, of which 221 belong to the Town sub-district
and 26 to Brompton, were equivalent to 1.38 per 1,000 persons living (l.70 in the Town sub-district
and 0.53 in Brompton) as compared with 1.37 in 1904, the decennial average being 1.77.
The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 1.70 per 1,000 (2.15 in 1904); the decennial
average being 2.46.