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[1929
Mental Hospital, 65 in the Royal Free Hospital, 65 in the University College
Hospital, 33 in the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 35 in the Eastern Fever
Hospital, 26 in the Middlesex Hospital, 8 in the City of London Maternity
Hospital, and 21 in the Metropolitan Hospital.
These 938 deaths represented 19.7 per cent. of all the deaths registered in
the year.
Within and Without the Borough.—The deaths of Islingtonians
numbered 2,677 and were equal to 56.4 per cent. of the total deaths registered
during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—
56 inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside Islington.
During the previous year (1928) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered
2,167, being 1,452 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus 715
non-inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington
Infirmary being 1,062, the number in the Royal Northern Hospital 113. The
deaths of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions outside the Borough were 883.
The total deaths is all Institutions, 2,335 ; and the proportion per 100 deaths from
all causes, 56.1.
Transferable Deaths.—During the year 55 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 Diarrhceal Diseases.
During the year 192 persons died from these diseases, the death-rate being
0.60 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.73 in the corresponding period
last year, and a decennial average mortality of 213 and a death-rate of 0.64 per
1,000.
In London the death-rate from the epidemic diseases was 0.57, while in the
six encircling Boroughs the death-rate was 0.57.
Locally the deaths in the Sub-Registration Districts and Wards were as
follows :—