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11
Deaths.
Exclusive of those Deaths which occurred in public
Institutions situated within the district, the deaths
registered during the year numbered 529. This number
includes those persons from within the district who died
outside, either at the Workhouse, Workhouse Infirmary,
or at the General Hospital at Croydon; the Surrey
County Asylum at Brookwood; the Cottage Hospital at
Carshalton; or the Council's Isolation Hospital at
Beddington Corner. The number of these Deaths was
92.
The mortality corresponds to a death rate of 9.6 per
thousand of population, as against 11.0 in 1904, 10.4 in
1903, 11.3 in 1902, 12.2 in 1901, and 12.0 in 1900, and
as against an average of 11.9 during the ten years
1904-1895.
The death rate in 1905 for the whole of England
and Wales from all causes was 15.2 per thousand, which
is 1.0 per thousand below the rate in 1904, and lower
than the rate in any other year on record; compared
with the average rate in the ten years 1895-1904, the
death rate in 1905 shows a decrease of 2.0 per thousand.