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Deaths occurring outside the borough among persons
belonging thereto.—The deaths of Fulham residents
outside the borough numbered 634, and occurred in
the following institutions :—
St. George's Hospital 48
West London Hospital 34
Other General Hospitals46
Children's Hospitals 20
Other Special Hospitals 25
Homes for advanced cases 17
Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board 15
Poor Law Infirmaries 308
Lunatic Asylums 71
In Nursing Homes, Private Houses and elsewhere 50
634
Of the deaths registered, 736 or 38.7 per cent. took
place either in Poor Law Institutions, in hospitals or
in public lunatic asylums, the percentages in the
various classes of institutions being as under :—
Deaths in Workhouses or Workhouse Infirmaries 21.6
,, Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals 2.8
,, other Hospitals 10.6
,, Public Lunatic and Imbecile Asylums 3.7
38.7
In the County of London, 44.7 per cent. of the deaths
occurred in public institutions.
Infantile Mortality.—Of the 1,902 deaths registered,
250 or 13.2 per cent. were of infants under one year of
age, and the rate of infant mortality measured by the
proportion of deaths under one year to registered
births was 83 per 1,000, which is the lowest rate
recorded in Fulham. The infantile death-rate of the
County of London was 85 per 1,000 and in the metropolitan
boroughs the rates ranged from 60 in Lewisham,
64 in Stoke Newington and 72 in Wandsworth to 102
in Kensington, 104 in Shoreditch and 105 in the City
of London.