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[1926
Without the Borough.— 755 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions in districts of London outside
the Borough and in various provincial towns. They included, among others,
27 in the North.Western Fever Hospitlal, 35 in the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormond' Street, 101 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 32 in the Colney Hatch
Mental Hospital, 58 in the Royal Free Hospital, 43 in the University College
Hospital, 18 in the North.Eastern Fever Hospital, 25 in the Eastern Fever
Hospital, 17 in the Middlesex Hospital, 7 in the City of London Maternity
Hospital, and 23 in the Claybury Mental Hospital.
These 755 deaths represented 18.5 per cent, of all the deaths registered in
the year.
Within and Without the Borough.—The deaths of Islingtonians
numbered 2,140 and were equal to 52.3 per cent, of the total deaths registered
during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—
Eighty.five inhabitants diedi from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside
Islington.
During the previous year (1925) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered
2,006, being 1,364 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus 642
non.inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington
Infirmary being 962, the number in the Royal Northern Hospital 128. The
deaths of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions outside the Borough were 777.
The tortal deaths in all Institutions, 2,141 ; and the proportion per 100 deaths from
all causes, 51.5.
Transferable Deaths.—During the year 47 deaths that had occurred In
outlying Institutions and other places outside the Borough were transferred by
the Registrar.General to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever., Whooping Couch, Fevers—Typhus,
Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhceal Diseases.
During the year 171 persons died from these diseases, the death.rate being
0.50 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.39 in the corresponding period'
last year, and a decennial average mortality of 253 and a death.rate of 0.78 per
1,000.
In London the death.rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.59, while in the
six Boroughs encircling Islington the death.rate was 0.54.