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furnished with the number of citizens who died in Institutions other than
those with which the City is connected.
The deaths from zymotic disease per 1,000 of the population was 0.67
compared with 2.21 in the Metropolis.
The deaths of children under one year of age to 1,000 births come out 124,
against 139 for the whole of London.
Deaths in City Institutions.
During 1902, 136 persons died in City Workhouses, Workhouse Infirmaries,
or Lunatic Asylums, or no less than 31.2 per cent. of the whole City mortality,
the corresponding figure for the Metropolis (1901) being 18.8 per cent.
This high percentage is caused in the City by the excessive proportion the
number of inmates in these places (exclusive of officers and their families)
bears to our population, the ratio being about 1:20, as compared with 1:94
in the Metropolis (Census 1901).
In other words, these figures represent that one in every 20 citizens is an
inmate of either a Workhouse, Workhouse Infirmary or a Lunatic Asylum,
in comparison with 1 in every 94 inhabitants of the Metropolis.

It will be seen that in 1902 31.2 per cent., or 1 in every 3.2, deaths in the
City occurred in one of the above-named Institutions, compared with 18.8 per
cent., or about 1 in 5.3, in the Metropolis (1901) under analogous circumstances.
The above is the highest figure recorded since 1896, and is 6 per cent.
above that for 1901, and 3.7 in excess of the average of the previous five
years.