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DEATHS.
Of the 2,969 deaths registered in the sub-districts of the Borough,
1,041 occurred in the Poor-Law institutions, the various hospitals, and
other public places for the treatment of the sick found within our
boundaries. These deaths in institutions comprised 366 belonging to
Southwark, and 675 to other boroughs of the metropolis. The various
localities in which the " outlying " deaths occurred are shown in the
following table.
The number of inhabitants belonging to the Borough dying away
from home—that is, outside our boundaries in the various hospitals
and infirmaries—-was 1,194. Of this very large number as many as 713
died in the Southwark Infirmary at Champion Hill. The remainder,
with but few exceptions, died at the large public hospitals.
The percentage of persons dying away from home in relation to the
total number of deaths occurring in the Borough was 34.2
When those persons who were non-parishioners, but who died in
our Borough have been deducted, and the outlying deaths added, the
actual or " corrected" number of deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area
is found to be 3,488, of which number 1,813 were males, and 1,675
females.
The death-rate when calculated on this " corrected " number is 16.3
per 1,000 inhabitants for the whole Borough for the year 1908, as against
a rate of 18.0 for 1907.