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Claybury Asylum 213
West Ham Asylum 91
Ilford Emergency Hospital 6
West Ham, Barking and Bow Residents
dying in the district 3
Total 313
For the district proper, apart from the institutions within
the district (except Dr. Barnardo's Homes, the deaths in
which institution must now be counted as belonging to
Ilford) receiving non-residents, the death-rate for the past
year was S.3, or corrected for sex and age the rate is 8.9 per
1,000 of the population.
The past year gives a satisfactory drop in the death-rate
for 1911. The total number of deaths for the district proper
was 695, as compared with 641 for 1912, so that this is a
considerable decrease. The diagram on the opposite page
gives at a glance the position of this rate as compared with
previous years.
The number of deaths from summer diarrhoea for 1912
was 10, as compared with 64 for 1911, so that is one of
the most important factors in the diminished death-rate.
On referring to Table III. at the end of this section it
will be seen that of the defined diseases Heart Disease is
recorded as the cause of the largest number of deaths, 82.
Cancer comes next with 75, and Phthisis with 43. Bronchitis
and Pneumonia were responsible for 34 and 36 respectively.
Zymotic Death-rate.
The total number of deaths registered from the seven
principal zymotic diseases for the year 1912 was 36, giving a
zymotic death-rate of .46 per thousand.