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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in out-lying Institutions was 783,
432 of males and 351 of females, compared with 739 in 1907, 731
in 1906, and 689 in 1905.
326 of these deaths occurred in the Union Infirmary, compared
with 376 in 1907, 433 in General and Special Hospitals, 68
of which occurred in Public Lunatic or Imbecile Asylums, compared
with 357 in 1907, and 14 in the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's Hospitals, compared with six in 1907.
Of the 433 deaths in General and Special Hospitals, 69
occurred in St. Thomas's Hospital, 43 in Bolingbroke Hospital,
24 in Belgrave Hospital, 18 in Victoria Hospital, 18 in St. George's
Hospital, 15 in Westminster Hospital, 15 in Guy's Hospital, 15 in
Horton Asylum, 12 in Banstead Asylum, 12 in Charing- Cross
Hospital, and nine in Cane Hill Asylum.
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 3,380,
1,669 °f males and 1,711 of females, a decrease of 36 compared
with 1907, and a decrease of 829 compared with the corrected
•decennial average.
The corrected death-rate for the year was 10.25, compared
with 10.67 in 1907, 11.15 in 1906, 11.6i in 1905, 12.93 in 1904,
12.24 in 1903, 13.43 in 1902, and 15.33 in 1901.
Corrected for the additional week included in the year 1908,
the number of deaths was 3,315, and the death-rate 10.05 Per
1,000.
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
14.75 Per 1,000, compared with 14.55 in 1907, 15,07 in 1906, 15,1
in 1905, i6.10 in 1904, 15.6 in 1903, and 17.2 in 1902.