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Medial Officers of Health Annual Report.
Deaths in outlying Institutions The deaths of "residents" in outlying metro-
politan institutions numbered 101, compared
with 110 during the preceding year. The
deaths included those of 49 males and 55 females.
Diphtheria was, as usual, the largest contributor to
the zymotic mortality, the deaths from that disease numbering
11, all of which occurred in the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board. Scarlet Fever and Enteric
Fever each also contributed four deaths.
In the institutions of the Wandsworth and Clapham
Union, 36 deaths took place; 44 in general and special
hospitals, 22 in the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, and two elsewhere.
The following Table, which indicates the nature of
the cause of death, the age and sex of the deceased, and
the character of the institution in which death occurred,
includes all ''residents" dying in outlying general and
special hospitals, within the Metropolis, and the Union
Infirmary, &c.