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The death-rate throughout the whole Borough was 17.0 per 1,000 of the population,
while that for the whole of London was 16.0 per 1,000.
1,089 of the deaths belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of
21.4 per 1,000.
793 of the deaths belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate of
17.5 per 1,000.
1,626 of the deaths belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of 15 0
per 1,000.
1,019 of the deaths belonged to the Whitechapel District, or at the rate
of 16.3 per 1,000.
Homeless. During the year there occurred in lunatic asylums the deaths of
229 persons, said to have been removed from addresses in this Borough to those
institutions, but with regard to 84 of the deaths, no definite addresses could be
given when the deaths were reported to the Registrars. 18 were stated to have
been removed from the Limehouse District, 14 from St. George-in-the-East, 23
from Mile End, and 29 from the Whitechapel District. 9 had been removed from
registered common lodging houses.
93 deaths, or 40 per cent. of the total were those of persons above 65 years
of age.
Nine bodies of unknown persons were found on the foreshore of the Thames
in the Limehouse District and were included in the Limehouse death returns. One
was that of a private in Kitchener's Army, but all inquiries failed to discover his
identity.
Nine unknown persons were killed in the streets, four being in the Whitechapel
District and one in the Limehouse District.
In the St. George's returns is included the death of an unknown person who
fell into the water at St. George's baths and died from a fractured skull.
There were 42 deaths of unknown persons in public institutions in the Borough,
of which 5 died from consumption of the lungs. 32 occurred in the Whitechapel
Infirmary and Workhouse, 6 in the London Hospital, 3 in the Mile End Infirmary,
and 1 in St. George's Infirmary.
In addition to these, there were 8 deaths in the Poplar and Stepney Sick
Asylum and Bromley Institution, of persons stated to have been removed from the
Limehouse District, and were therefore included in the Limehouse returns.
Common Lodging Houses.—There were 255 deaths in public institutions of
persons admitted from common lodging houses in the Borough. 63, or nearly a
quarter, died from Phthisis.