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[1928
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.—2,167 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,452 belonged to this Borough, the remaining 715
having come here for treatment or relief. Of these, 421 died in the Archway
House, 122 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital, 91 in the London Fever
Hospital, and 29 in the Islington Institution and Islington Infirmary.
Of the 1,452 deaths of inhabitants, 1,062 occurred in the Islington Infirmary,
236 in the Islington Institution, and 113 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital.
The proportion which the 1,452 deaths in the Public Institutions bore to the
Borough mortality was 34.9 per cent.
Without the Borough.- 883 deaths of persons belonging to Islington
were registered as occurring in Public Institutions in district of London outside
the Borough and in various provincal towns. They included, among others,
34 in the North-Western Fever Hospital, 38 in the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, 80 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 28 in the Colney Hatch
Mental Hospital, 80 in the Royal Free Hospital, 64 in the University College
Hospital, 38 in the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 23 in the Eastern Fever
Hospital, 33 in the Middlesex Hospital, 11 in the City of London Maternity
Hospital, and 39 in the Metropolitan Hospital.
These 883 deaths represented 21.2 per cent. of all the deaths registered in
the year.
Within and Without the Borough,—The deaths of Islingtonians
numbered 2,335 and were equal to 56.1 per cent. of the total deaths registered
during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—
91 inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside
Islington.
During the previous year (1927) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered
2,081, being 1,385 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus 696
non-inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington
Infirmary being 1,004, the number in the Royal Northern Hospital 124. The
deaths of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions outside the Borough were 821.
The total deaths in all Institutions, 2,206; and the proportion per 100 deaths from
all causes, 53.5.
Transferable Deaths.— During the year 38 deaths of residents that had
occurred in outlying Institutions and other places in Provincial Boroughs were
transferred by the Registrar-General to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Fevers—
Typhus, Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhœal Diseases.
During the year 237 persons died from these diseases, the death-rate being
0.73 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.38 in the corresponding period
last year, and a decennial average mortality of 226 and a death-rate of 0.68 per
1,000.
In London the death-rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.67, while in the
six Boroughs encircling the death-rate was 0.75.