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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
7
Deaths.
During the 52 weeks ending the 31st December, 1904, 3,296
deaths, 1,612 of males and 1,684 of females, were registered in the
Borough, compared with 3,007 in 1903, 3,209 in 1902, and 3,009 in
1901.
Although the actual number of uncorrected deaths is greater than
in any previous year, yet it is 168 below the average of the ten years
1894-1903 corrected for increase of population.
The uncorrected death-rate was 12-22, compared with 11.69 in
1903, 12.84 in 1902, 12.82 in 1901, and 13.36 the average for the
preceding ten years.
To ascertain the corrected death-rate corrections must be made
to the above by the addition of the deaths in out-lying institutions of
persons belonging to the Borough, and the subtraction of all deaths
in public institutions in the Borough of persons not belonging thereto,
whose domicile was in other parts of London.
The total number of deaths corrected for both external and
internal institutions was 3,417, compared with 3,073 in 1903, 3,328 in
1902, 3,130 in 1901, and 3,527, the corrected deccnnial average.
In 1903 the number of deaths was 433 under the corrected
decennial average, while in 1904 it was only 110. The causes of this
-will be dealt with later on in this Report.
During the year 524 deaths occurred in public institutions in the
Borough of persons not belonging thereto, and 29 in other places (as
Nursing Homes, the River Thames, etc.), not public institutions
making a total of 553, compared with 472 in 1903, and 487 in 1902.
Table IV. shows these deaths arranged according to sub-districts
and Table V. the deaths arranged according to causes of death, sex,
age and institution in which the death occurred.