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deaths in institutions.
The more noteworthy changes are the decrease in the number due to suicide, and the increase
in the number due to "neglect." A summary of particulars relating to the deaths is appended
to the Table.
The mortality rate from suicide was 099 last year, being 0.01 less than the quinquennial
mean (0.10). Increased rates were recorded in Maida Vale and Hyde Park Wards, viz., from
a mean of 0.102 to a rate of 0.10 in the former, and from a mean of 0.12 to a rate of 0.36 in
the latter. (See Table 22.) In the latter Ward the highest mortality from alcoholic excess
recorded during the year took place.
Misadventure—(7 deaths)—
Overlaid in bed 2 Epileptic seizure (suffocation) 1
Injury at birth 1 Burst varicose vein 1
Lead poisoning 1 Overdose of morphia 1
Accident—(55 deaths)—
Burns or scalds 12 Suffocation 5
Falls (various) 10 Building operations 2
Vehicular traffic 8 Abortion 2
Overlaid in bed 8 Other accidents 4
On Railways 4
Suicide—(14 deaths)—
By poison, 4, carbolic acid (1 male and 1 female), hydrochloric acid (1 male), liquid ammonia
(1 female).
By coal gas—1 male. By cut throat—1 male.
By hanging—1 male, 1 female. By cut arm—1 male.
By drowning—3 males. By throwing self from window—1 female.
By shooting—1 male.
Open—(5 deaths)—
Oxalic acid—1 female. Drowning—2 males, 2 females.
DEATHS IN INSTITUTIONS.
The 775 deaths which occurred last year in local public institutions included 350 deaths
of non-residents, while in outlying institutions 172 deaths of residents took place. The nett
total of deaths of residents in all public institutions during the year was 597, 19 more than in
1905 (578). The principal causes of death in such places, both local and outlying, are set out
in Table IIIa, Appendix.
I he deaths in institutions constituted 32.4 per cent. of all deaths last year, as compared
with 29.4 per cent. in 1905, and a mean of 27.8 for the five years 1901-05.