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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 21
The total number of deaths in Out-lying Institutions was 739,
395 of males and 344 of females, compared with 731 in 1906, 689
in 1905, and 674 in 1904.
376 of these deaths occurred in the Union Infirmary, compared
with 359 in 1906, 357 in General and Special Hospitals,
compared with 357 in 1906, and six in the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's Hospitals, compared with 10.
Of the 357 deaths in General and Special Hospitals, 52
occurred in St. Thomas's Hospital, 30 in Bolingbroke Hospital, 18
in Horton Asylum, 17 in Banstead Asylum, 15 in Belgrave Hospital,
14 in Westminster Hospital, 13 in Charing Cross Hospital,
12 in St. George's Hospital, nine in Cane Hill Asylum, and nine
in Guy's Hospital.
The number of deaths in these and other Institutions outside
the Borough is shown on Table XII.
The corrected number of deaths after adding the deaths of
persons belonging to the Borough and subtracting those of persons
dying in the Borough and not belonging thereto, was 3,416,
1,643 of males and 1,773 of females, a decrease of 45 compared
with 1906, and a decrease of 1,113 compared with the corrected
decennial average.
The corrected death-rate for the year was 10.67, compared
with 11.15 in 1906, 11.6i in 1905, 12.93 in 19.41 12.24 in 1903,
13.43 in 1902 and 15.33 in 1901.
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
14.55 Per 1,000, compared with 15.07 in 1906, 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 1906 was 15.0 per
1,000, compared with 15.4 in 1906, 16.2 in 1905, and 16.2 in 1904;
in the 76 Great Towns 15.4, compared with 15.9; and in the 142
Smaller Towns 14.5, compared with 14.5.