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* Including 2 deaths by execution in 1909.
DEATHS IN INSTITUTIONS.
The deaths taking place in the local institutions have notably increased during the last ten
years. In 1913 there were 890* deaths, being 92 more than in 1912. During the five years
1903-07 the average annual number was 775 (see Table VII., Appendix), and during the five
years 1908-12, 920. Particulars of the causes of death in the different institutions will be found
in Table VIII. of the Appendix. The total of 890 deaths included 384 of non-residents of the
Borough. In outlying institutions there were 252 deaths of residents of the Borough, an
increase of 41 above the number recorded in 1912 (211), the average annual number during the
five years 1908-12 having been 189. (See Table VII., Appendix.) Attention may be directed
to the increases in the numbers recorded last year, above the averages in the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board (largely due to the allocation of much of the accommodation to
diseases other than the acute infectious fevers), in the General Hospitals, and in Lunatic
Asylums.
The total number of residents dying in institutions of all classes (except private nursing
homes) was 789 last year, as compared with 677 in 1912 and an annual average of 653 during the
years 1908-12. Last year's total was equivalent to 39.9 per cent. of the total number of deaths
recorded, the corresponding figure for 1912 having been 382, and the average for the 'years
1908-12, 349.† According to the figures given in Table VII., Appendix, the proportion of .
deaths of residents in institutions has increased by over 10 per cent. in the course of 11 years
1903-13, from 294 in the first year to 39 9 in the last. The proportions of institutional deaths
has increased in all the Wards. Last year (see below) just over one-half of the deaths belonging
to Church Ward took place in institutions, that being the highest proportion recorded, the lowest
(23.6) being recorded in Lancaster Gate, West, Ward. In comparison with the averages for
1908-12 the greatest increase was observed in Lancaster Gate, East (percentage, 1913, 27.1—
average. 19.0).

* There were in addition 47 deaths in the nursing homes in the Borough last year, as compared with 25 in
1912. The deaths of non-residents in such homes were 34 last year and 15 in 1912.
† The deaths of males in institutions during the year numbered 421, or 44.8 per cent. of all deaths of males,
and of females, 368, equal to 35.3 per cent. of all deaths of females. In 1912 the percentages were—for males 41.7,
and for females 34.7.