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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in out-lying Institutions was 989,
549 of males and 440 of females, compared with 812 in 1910, 897
in 1909, and 783 in 1908.
405 of these deaths occurred in Workhouses and Workhouse
Infirmaries, compared with 395 in 1910; 454 in General ard
Special Hospitals, compared with 317 in 1910; 77 in Public
Lunatic or Imbecile Asylums, compared with 90 in 1910;
and 53 in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals, compared
with 10 in 1910.
Of the 454 deaths in General and Special Hospitals, 62
occurred in St. Thomas's Hospital, 43 in Bolingbroke Hospital,
19 in Belgrave Hospital, 34 in Victoria Hospital, 16 in St. George's
Hospital, 16 in Westminster Hospital, eight in King's College
Hospital, 21 in Guy's Hospital, 19 in Long Grove Asylum, 10 in
Horton Asylum, 10 in Banstead Asylum, 10 in Charing Cross
Hospital, nine in Cane Hill Asylum, seven in Middlesex Hospital,
nine in West London Hospital, and seven in St. Bartholomew's
Hospital.
In the South Western Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, there were 24 deaths, one from Diphtheria, one from Enteric
Fever, 21 from Measles, and one from other causes. In the Western
Hospital there were 26 deaths, two from Enteric Fever, two from
Whooping Cough, one from Diphtheria, one from Cerebro-spinal
Fever, and 20 from Measles ; and in the Park Hospital three deaths,
one from Measles, and two from other causes.
The number of deaths in these and other Institutions outside
the Borough is shown on Table LXXX.
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 3,775, 1,833
of males and 1,943 of females, an increase of 670 compared with
1910, but a decrease of 96 compared with the corrected decennial
average.