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1922] 22
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough.- 1975 persons died in the Public Institutions located in
Islington, of whom 1,344 belonged to this Borough, the remaining 631 having come here
for treatment or relief. Of these, 426 died in the Archway House and 112 in the Royal
Northern Central Hospital.
Of the 1,344 deaths of inhabitants, 977 occurred in the Islington Infirmary, 218 in
the Islington Institution, and 116 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital. The proportion
which the 1,344 deaths in these Public Institutions bore to the Borough mortality was
29-1 per cent.
Without the Borough.—817 deaths of persons belonging to Islington were
registered as occurring in Public Institutions in districts of London outside the
Borough and in various provincial towns. They included, among others, 24 in the Northwestern
Fever Hospital, 42 in the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street. 99 in
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 32 in the Colney Hatch Asylum, 57 in the Royal Free Hospital,
53 in the University College Hospital. 42 in the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, 19 in the
Eastern Fever Hospital, and 38 in the Middlesex Hospital.
These 817 deaths represented 17.7 per cent. of all the deaths registered in the year.
Within and Without the Borough.- The deaths of Islingtonians numbered
2,232 and were equal to 46 8 per cent. of the total deaths registered during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—Seventy-six
inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside Islington,
During the previous year (1921) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered 1868,
being 1,340 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus 528 non-inhabitants of
Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington Infirmary being 936, the number
in the Royal Northern Hospital 131. The deaths of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions
outside the Borough were 793. The total deaths in all Institutions, 2,133 ; and the proportion
per 100 deaths from all causes, 48.8.
A table showing the Institutional deaths of former years appeared in Report, 1922.
Transferable Deaths.—During the year 60 deaths that had occurred in outlying
Institutions and other places outside the Borough were transferred by the RegistrarGeneral
to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles. Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough Fevers—Typhus,
Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhæal Diseases.
During the year 349 persons died from these diseases, the death-rate being 1.05 per
1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.86 in the corresponding period last year, and a
decennial average mortality of 319 and a death rate of 1.00 per 1,000.
In London the death-rate from the epidemic diseases was 1.08, while in the six Boroughs
encircling Islington the death-rate was 1.00.