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Deaths of non-residents occurring in public institutions in
the district are in like manner to be excluded.
By the term "non-resident" is meant persons brought
into the district on account of sickness or infirmity and dying
in public institutions there; and by the term residents" is meant
persons who have been taken out of the district on account of
sickness or infirmity and have died in public institutions
elsewhere.
The "public institutions" to be taken into account for
the purposes of the Tables are those into which persons are
habitually received on account of sickness or infirmity, such as
hospitals, workhouses and lunatic asylums.
These regulations do not include those who die before
they can be removed to a public institution. For instance, if
a man from an outside district is injured on the railway here
and the injury is instantaneously fatal the death is to be
credited to Acton, If on the other hand he can be removed
to a Hospital before he dies the death is to be credited to the
district in which he resided.
Four deaths of persons living in an outside district
occurred as the result of accidents received on a railway in
Acton, and one other occurred in a tramcar.
In the list of deaths of "residents" of Acton who had
died outside the district are included two which occurred on
the platform of Westbourne Park Station, one which occurred
in a cab in a London Street, Marylebone, and two others
which do not come within the category of public institutions
receiving persons on account of sickness or infirmity. It
is obvious that both classes should not be included in our list
of deaths. I have therefore excluded the five belonging to
other districts, and retained those who died outside the
district.
Five hundred and seventy-six deaths were registered in the
district; five of these are referred to in the preceding