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DEATHS.—During- the year, 2,041 deaths were registered in
the Borough, or 11.2 per 1,000. One hundred and forty-six of
the deaths registered in the Borough were those of strangers dying
at the Workhouse or Infirmary, 29 of strangers dying at the
Croydon General Hospital, 22 at the Cottage Hospital, Upper
Norwood, 4 at the Purley Cottage Hospital, 1 at the Croydon
Borough Hospital, 1 at 297, Whitehorse Lane (Nursing Home),
3 at 3, Tavistock Grove (Nursing Home), 2 at 40, Dingwall Road
(Nursing Home), 4 at 2, Sydenham Road (Nursing Home), 2 at 12,
Stanford Road (Nursing Home), 2 at 20, Bramley Hill (Nursing
Home), 1 at 5, Campbell Road (Nursing Home), 5 at 99, Central
Hill (Servants' Reformatory), 9 at other residences and 3 street
deaths.
If we deduct these 234 deaths and add 177 deaths of Croydon
residents known to have occurred outside the district during the
same period, we get a nett total of 1,984 deaths, which is equal to
10.9 per 1,000 as compared with 13.7 for England and Wales, 15.0
for the 97 great towns, 13.1 for the 145 smaller towns, 12.4 for
England and Wales less the 242 towns.
Corrections for deaths of strangers occurring within the
Borough and of deaths of Croydon people dying outside the
Borough are now returned by the Registrar-General. These were
formerly obtained for Croydon through the courtesy of the Superintendent
of Statistics, Somerset House, and the figures have been
available since 1903.
WARD DEATH-RATES.—Table VI. gives the number of
deaths assignable to each district in the Borough. Institution
deaths have been as far as possible, debited to the Wards in which
the deceased lived prior to admission to hospital.