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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in Outlying Institutions was 731,
381 of males and 350 of females, compared with 689 in 1905, 674
in 1904, and 538 in 1903.
Of these 359 occurred in the Union Infirmary, compared with
336 in 1905; 357 in General and Special Hospitals, compared with
343; and 15 in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,.
compared with 10 in 1905.
Of the 357 deaths in General and Special Hospitals 76
occurred in St. Thomas's Hospital, 27 in Bolingbroke Hospital,
21 in Belgrave Hospital, 20 in Banstead Asylum, 16 in Charing
Cross Hospital, 15 in St. George's Hospital, 13 in Westminster
Hospital, 12 in Guy's Hospital, and 12 in the South Western
Fever Hospital. The places where these and the remaining
deaths in Public Institutions outside the Borough occurred is
shown on Table XII.
The corrected number of deaths after adding the deaths on
Table VIII., and subtracting those on Table VI. was 3,461, 1,703
of males and 1,758 of females, an increase of 141 compared with
the previous year, but a decrease of 697 compared with the corrected
decennial average.
The corrected death-rate for the year was II'15, compared
with ii.6i in 1905, 12.93 in 19°4, 12.24 in 1903, 13'43 in 1902,
and 15'33 in 19°I.
Table IX. shows the total number of deaths and the deathrates
for each sub-district and for the whole Borough, corrected
and uncorrected for deaths in Public Institutions.
The death-rate for the whole of London for the year was
15'07 per 1,000, compared with 15.1 in 1905, 16.10 in 1904, 15.6
in 1903, and 17.2 in 1902.
The death-rate in England and Wales in 1905 was 15.4 per
1,000, compared with 16.2 in 1905, and 16.2 in 1904; in the 76
Great Towns 15.9, compared with 17.2; and in the 142 Smaller
Towns 14.5, compared with 15.6.