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DEATHS.
1,313 deaths were registered in the sub-districts of the Borough
during 1937, the chief cause being Heart diseases, which accounted for
617, followed by Cancer with 279 deaths.
33 Southwark residents died in the street, or on the way to hospital.
737 deaths occurred in Public Assistance Institutions, the various
hospitals, and other public places for the treatment of the sick found
within our boundaries. These deaths in institutions comprised 161
belonging to Southwark and 576 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 1,337.
When the 576 deaths of those persons who were non-parishioners,
but who died in our Borough, have been deducted, and the 1,337 "outlying"
deaths added, the actual or "corrected" number of deaths
belonging to the sanitary area is found to be 2,074, of which number
1,187 were males and 887 females.
The death-rate, when calculated on this "corrected" number, is
14.1 per 1,000 inhabitants for the whole Borough for the year 1937, as
against a rate of 13.1 for 1936.
The percentage of persons dying away from Southwark in relation
to the total number of deaths belonging to the Borough was 64.0.