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1925] 20
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Within the Borough. —2,000 persons died in the Public Institutions
located in Islington, of whom 1,364 belonged to this Borough, the remaining 642
having come here for treatment or relief. Of these, 420 died in the Archway
House and 115 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital.
Of the 1,364 deaths of inhabitants, 962 occurred in the Islington Infirmary,
22f in the Islington Institution, and 128 in the Royal Northern Central Hospital.
The proportion which the 1,304 deaths in these Public Institutions bore to the
Borough mortality was 32.8 per cent.
Without the Borough.— 777 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, 23
in the North-Western Fever Hospital, 38 in the Children's Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, 94 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 38 in the Colney Hatch Mental
Hospital, 49 in the Royal Free Hospital, 49 in the University College Hospital, 25
in the Hanwell Mental Hospital, 26 in the Metropolitan Hospital, and 28 in the
Middlesex Hospital.
These 777 deaths represented 18.7 per cent, of all the deaths registered in the
year.
Within and Without the Borough.—The deaths of Islingtonians
numbered 2,141, and were equal to 51.5 per cent, of the total deaths registered
during the year.
Fatal Accidents or Sudden Deaths outside the Borough.—
100 inhabitants died from accidental deaths, or suddenly, in places outside
Islington.
During the previous year (1924) the total deaths in Local Institutions numbered
1,903, being 1,273 inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, plus G30
non-inhabitants of Islington in Local Institutions, the number in Islington
Infirmary being 891, the number in the Royal Northern Hospital 133. The deaths
of inhabitants of Islington in Institutions outside the Borough were 778; the total
deaths in all Institutions, 2,051 ; and the proportion per 100 deaths from all
causes, was 48.6.
Transferable Deaths.—During the year 63 deaths that had occurred in
outlying Institutions and other places outside the Borough were transferred by the
Registrar-General to Islington.
MORTALITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Fevers—Typhus,
Enteric and Continued—and Diarrhocal Diseases.
During the year 131 persons died from these diseases, the death-rate being
0.39 per 1,000 inhabitants, as contrasted with 0.66 in the corresponding period
last year, and a decennial average mortality of 285 and a death-rate of 0.89 per
1,000.