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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in outlying Institutions was 1,252,
650 of males and 602 of females, compared with 1,155 in 1914,
1,066 in 1913, and 940 in 1912. 717 of these deaths occurred in
Workhouses and Workhouse Infirmaries; 405 in General and Special
Hospitals; 116 in Public Lunatic or Imbecile Asylums; and 14 in
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals.
The hospitals, asylums, etc., in which these deaths occurred
are shown in detail on Table LXIII., on page 117.
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 4,189, 2,085
of males, and 2,104 of females.
The corrected death-rate for the year was 12-63 compared
with 11.20 in 1914, 10.95 in 1913, and 10-48 in 1912, and 11.73 the
rate for the 10 years 1905-1914.
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 16.1
per 1,000, compared with 14.4 in 1914, 14.2 in 1913, 13.96 in 1912,
and 14.83 the decennial average.