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DEATHS.
1,773 deaths were registered in the sub-districts of the Borough
during 1927.
10 of these deaths were of persons residing in other sanitary districts,
but who died in our streets or on the way to hospitals.
920 deaths 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 411
belonging to Southwark and 509 to other sanitary districts.
The number of inhabitants belonging to the Borough dying away
from home—that is outside our boundaries in the various hospitals and
infirmaries—was 1,211.
When the 519 deaths of those persons who were non-parishioners
but who died in our Borough, have been deducted, and the 1,211 "outlying"
deaths added, the actual or "corrected" number of deaths
belonging to the sanitary area is found to be 2,465 of which number
1,345 were males and 1,120 females.
The death-rate when calculated on this "corrected" number is 13.4
per 1,000 inhabitants for the whole Borough for the year 1927, as against
a rate of 12.7 for 1926.
The percentage of persons dying away from Southwark in relation to
the total number of deaths belonging to the Borough was 49.1.
The principal localities in which the "outlying" deaths occurred
are as follows :—
Southwark Hospital 759
Mental Hospitals 86
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals 50
St. Thomas's Hospital 60
Lambeth Hospital 20
Belgrave Hospital 12
King's College Hospital 25
Royal Waterloo Hospital 15
In the Street and other Institutions 184
Total 1211