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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in out-lying Institutions was 940,
551 of males and 389 of females, compared with 989 in 1911, 812 in
1910, and 897 in 1909.
437 of these deaths occurred in Workhouses and Workhouse
Infirmaries, compared with 405 in 1911; 393 in General and Special
Hospitals, compared with 454 in 1911; 89 in Public Lunatic or
Imbecile Asylums, compared with 77 in 1911; and 21 in the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals, compared with 53 in
1911.
Of the 482 deaths in General and Special Hospitals, 63 occurred
in St. Thomas's Hospital, 33 in Bolingbroke Hospital, six in Belgrave
Hospital, 13 in Victoria Hospital, 11 in St. George's Hospital,
16 in Westminster Hospital, eight in King's College Hospital, 15 in
Guy's Hospital, 16 in Long Grove Asylum, 19 in Horton Asylum,
11 in Banstead Asylum, eight in Caterham Asylum, seven in Manor
Asylum, eight in Charing Cross Hospital, nine in Cane Hill Asylum,
11 in Middlesex Hospital, six in St.. Bartholomew's Hospital, and
11 in Evelina Hospital.
In the South-Western Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, there were 10 deaths; one from Puerperal Fever, five from
Enteric Fever, one from Measles, and three from other causes. In
the Western Hospital there were two deaths; one from Whooping
Cough and one from Measles; in the Park Hospital six deaths, all
from other causes; and in the Southern Hospital three, two from
Scarlet Fever and one from Whooping Cough.
The number of deaths in these and other Institutions outside
the Borough is shown on Table LXXIX.
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 3,291, 1,691
of males, and 1,600 of females, a decrease of 485 compared with
1911, and of 712 compared with the corrected decennial average.
The corrected death-rate for the year was 10.48, compared
with 12.25 in 1911. 10.34 in 1910, 12.11 in 1909, and 12.43 the rate
for the 10 years 1902-1911.