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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in out-lying institutions was 689,
384 of males and 305 of females, compared with 674 in 1904, 538 in
1903, and 582 in 1902.
Of these, 336 occurred in the Union Infirmary, compared with
318 in 1904; 343 in general and special hospitals, compared with
345; and 10 in the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
compared with 11 in 1904.
Of the 343 deaths in general and special hospitals, 57 occurred
in St. Thomas's Hospital, 26 in the Bolingbroke Hospital, 25 in
Belgrave Hospital, 21 in Banstead Asylum, 15 in Westminster
Hospital, 11 in Charing Cross Hospital, and 10 each in Evelina Hospital,
Hoxton Asylum, St. George's Hospital and Victoria Hospital. The
places where the above and remaining deaths in Public Institutions
outside the Borough occurred is shown on Table XI.
The corrected number of deaths, after adding the deaths on
Table VIII. and subtracting those on Table VI., was 3,320, 1,684 of
males and 1,636 of females, a decrease of 97 compared with 1904,
and of 512 compared with the decennial average corrected for increase
of population.
The corrected death-rate for the year was 11.61 per 1,000, compared
with 12.93 in 1904, 12.24 1903, 13.43 in 1902, and 15.33 in
1901.
Table IX. shows the total number of deaths and the death-rates
for each sub-district and the whole Borough, corrected and uncorrected
for deaths in Public Institutions.
The death-rate for the whole of London for the year was 15.1 per
1,000, compared with 16.10 in 1904, 15.6 in 1903, 17.2 in 1902, and
17.1 in 1901.
The death-rate in England and Wales in 1905 was 16.2 per 1,000,
compared with 16.2 in 1904; in the 76 great towns 17.2, compared
with 17.2 ; and in the 141 smaller towns 15.6, compared with 15.6.