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DEATHS IN INSTITUTIONS.
TABLE 41.
Inquests.
Finding of Jury.
1911.
1910.
1906-10.
m.
f.
m.
f.
m.
f.
Natural Causes
37
23
38
44
38
42
Misadventure
6
5
6
3
6
3
Accidental Causes
25
19
27
24
29
22
Murder
1
—
—
—
1
0
Suicide
8
3
10
3
10
4
"Open"
3
4
—
—
2
1
"Neglect," &c.
1
3
—
2
2
2
Execution
-
-
-
-
0
-
Totals
81
57
81
76
88
74
DEATHS IN INSTITUTIONS.
The deaths in local institutions numbered 854 last year, or 51 more than the average
(803), but 385 of the deceased persons were non-residents. Tables V. and VI., Appendix A,
give the numbers and causes of death in cach institution. In out-lying institutions (Table VII.,
Appendix A) 196 deaths of residents took place, so that the corrected total of deaths of residents
in institutions was 665, equal to 35'8 per cent, of all deaths of residents, as compared with 35'2
per cent, in 1910, and an average of 34T during 1906-10.
In comparison with the average for 1906-10 the greatest increase per cent, was observed in
Hyde Park Ward (increase 8.0 per cent.), Maida Vale having the next largest (4.6). In Church
Ward the increase was only 2.8 per cent., but that Ward had the highest percentage (46.8) in
the whole series. In Lancaster Gate, East, Ward, last year's proportion of institutional deaths
(12T) was only 0.1 in excess of half the average (24'0). (See below!)
1911. 1910. 190610. 1911. 1910. 1906-10.
Queen's Park 38.2 36.8 34.3 Church 46.8 45.7 44.0
Harrow Road 33.4 33.6 31.3 Lancaster Gate, West 23.0 16.6 19.2
Maida Vale 33.4 28.5 28.8 „ East 12.1 27.7 24.0
Westbourne 32.8 33.7 32.6 Hyde Park 35 0 27.7 27. 0
The deaths in the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board were equal to 23 per cent,
of all deaths, showing an increase of 1*5 above the proportion recorded in 1910 and one of 10
above the annual average of 1906-10. It should be remembered that during the past year those
hospitals have been open to patients suffering from measles and whooping cough. If the
deaths (13) from those diseases be deducted from the total deaths (45) in those hospitals, last
year's proportion is reduced to 1.6 per cent., which is double the proportion noted in 1910. An
examination of the causes of death (Table VII., Appendix A) points to the number of deaths
among the children in the hospitals reserved for them (e.g., Queen Mary's Hospital) as the
cause of the increase. There were also increases in the proportions of deaths in Poor Law
Institutions and in Lunatic Asylums. (See below.) Some of those increases arc doubtless due
to the larger number of deaths returned from out-lying institutions arising from the wider area
covered by the " transferred " deaths.
Rate-supported Institutions— 1911. 1910. 1906-10.
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board 2.3 0.8 1.3
Poor Law Institutions 20.5 20.7 18.6
Lunatic Asylums 3.0 2.2 2.5
Voluntary Institutions—
Hospitals and Homes (excluding Nursing Homes) 9.7 11.3 11.1