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16 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in out-lying Institutions was 1,155,
621 of males and 534 of females, compared with 1,066 in 1913, 940
in 1912, and 989 in 1911.
600 of these deaths occurred in Workhouses and Workhouse
Infirmaries, compared with 500 in 1913; 425 in General and Special
Hospitals, compared with 425 in 1913; 113 in Public Lunatic or
Imbecile Asylums, compared with 105 in 1913; and 17 in the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals, compared with 36 in
1913.
The hospitals, asylums, etc., in which these deaths occurred
are shown in detail on Table LXXXVII., on page 164.
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 3,664, 1,794
of males, and 1,870 of females, an increase of 76 compared with
1913, but a decrease of 242 compared with the corrected decennial
average.
The corrected death-rate for the year was 11 -20 compared
with 10.95 in 1913, 10.48 in 1912, 12.25 in 1911 and 11.96 the rate
for the 10 years 1904-1913.
Table XI. 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 14.4
per 1,000, compared with 14.2 in 1913, 13.96 in 1912, 15.8 in 1911,
and 15.04 the decennial average.