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The following special cases arise as to transferrable deaths:—
(1) Persons dying in institutions for the sick or infirm,
such as hospitals, lunatic asylums, workhouses, and nursing
homes (but not almshouses) must be regarded as residents of
the district in which they had a fixed or usual residence at
the time of admission.
(2) The deaths of infants born and dying within a year
of birth in an Institution to which the mother was admitted
for her confinement should be referred to the district of fixed
or usual residence of the parent.
(3) Deaths from Violence are to be referred (a) to the
district of residence under the general rule; (b) if this district
is unknown, or the deceased had no fixed abode, to the district
where the accident occurred, if known; (c) failing this to the
district where death occurred, if known, and (d) failing this,
to the district where the body was found.
602 deaths were registered in the district; of this number
three were transferred to other districts, by the Register General.
178 deaths of "residents" occurred outside the district.
The total number of deaths belonging to the district is 777,
which corresponds to a death-rate of 13.3 per 1,000 inhabitants.
It has been explained in previous reports that in order to
compare the death-rate of one district with that of another
it is necessary to make an allowance for the difference in age
and sex distributions of the different districts. After each
census, the Registrar General publishes a table of factors for
all the large towns, &c., by applying which to the crude-deathrate,
it becomes corrected for age and sex distribution. The