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Hospital, Plaistow Maternity Charity, I.C.C.S. Children's
Hospital, Royal Albert Dock Hospital and Forest Gate Sick
Home) receive patients from the surrounding districts whose
deaths are registered in the district, but have to be excluded
from tabulation as transferable to West Ham.
It will be noted that in the former group (outside Institutions)
59 infants and 1,071 persons over the age of 1 year died
during the year, and in the latter group (inside Institutions) 134
infants and 372 elders died, of which numbers 38 infants' and
170 elders' deaths were of non-residents of the Borough. The
net deaths of West Ham residents in Public Institutions were
155 infants and 1,273 persons of one year and upwards, making
a total of 1,428 institutional deaths as compared with 1,903 deaths
in private residences. That is to say, over 42 per cent. of the
deaths during the year occurred in Public Institutions. Twenty
years ago the percentage was, so far as could be ascertained,
not more than 25.
Deaths in Outside Institutions:—
Under 1 year. 1 year and upwards.
Whipps Cross Hospital 18 399
Central Home — 296
Dagenham Sanatorium — 38
Goodmayes Mental Hospital — 58
Residents dying in London Institutions &c. 41 280
Deaths in Inside Institutions: —
Plaistow Hospital 3 40
Queen Mary's Hospital for East End 54 144
St. Mary's Hospital 34 41
Plaistow Maternity Charity 13 5
Royal Albert Dock Hospital — 53
I.C.C.S. Children's Hospital 7 2
Forest Gate Sick Home 20 63
Other Places, e.g., Docks 3 24
193 1443
Non-residents dying in Inside Institutions 38 170
155 1273
Net West Ham Deaths in Institutions = 1428