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Bronchitis, whooping cough, diarrhoea and enteritis and tubercular
diseases are chiefly accountable for the decrease.
In column I, foot of Table I. of the Appendix, will be found a
list of places where deaths of non-parishioners occurred in the district.
There were 26 such deaths in all, against 21 in 1913, and
20 in 1912.
9 such deaths occurred in the infirmary ; 9 in River Thames;
6 in Surrey Commercial Docks ; I in the street ; and I in a private
house.
516 persons belonging to this Borough died in outlying
institutions, against 534 in 1913, and 538 in 1912. The names of the
various places where the deaths occurred will be found in columns
2 and 3 at foot of Table I. of Appendix.
TABLE E.—Death-rates corrected for Age and Sex Constitution of
the various Populations, 1914.
Factor for
Correction
for age
and sex
distribution.
Crude
Death-rate
per 1,000
persons
living.
1914.
Corrected
Death-rate
per 1,000
persons
living.
1914.
Comparative
Mortality
Figures.
Area.
England and Wales
0·9790
13·7
13·4
1,000
London, County of
1·0000
14·4
14·4
1,042
Paddington
0·994 1
13·0
12·9
942
Kensington
0·9957
13·1
13·1
995
Hammersmith
0·9884
13·9
13·7
997
Fulham
1·0340
13·4
13·8
1,018
Chelsea
0·9513
13·5
12·9
1,064
Westminster, City of
1·0540
12·6
13·2
1,003
St. Marylebone
1·0198
13·8
1 4 ·1
1,084
Hampstead
1·0572
10·4
11·0
798
St. Pancras
0·9971
15·6
15·6
1,119
Islington
0·9749
15·2
14·8
1,073
Stoke Newington
13·1
12·5
885
0·9512
Hackney
1·0066
13·9
14·0
936
Holborn
1·0034
16·1
16·2
1,180
Finsbury
0.9887
19·6
19·4
1,427
City of London
1·0419
13·4
14·0
1,078
Shoreditch
1·0331
19·0
19·6
1,440
Bethnal Green
1·0397
16·0
16·6
1,224
Stepney
1·0433
16·5
17·3
1,221
Poplar
0·9898
17·1
16·9
1,244
Southwark
1·0060
17·8
17·9
1,291
Lambeth
0·9804
14·6
1,003
14·3
Battersea
1·0098
13·3
949
13·4
Wandsworth
1·0045
10·9
11·0
786
Camberwell
0·9883
13·7
13·6
979
Deptford
0·9879
14·4
14·3
997
Greenwich
0·9837
1 4·7
14·5
991
Lewisham
0·9826
10·9
10·7
786
Woolwich
1·0249
13·8
14.1
914
BERMONDSEY
0·9976
17·4
17·4
1,288
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