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II
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)
86 infants and 1,114 persons over the age of 1 year died
during the year, and in the latter group (inside Institutions) 140
infants and 410 elders died, of which numbers 38 infants and
160 elders' deaths were of non.residents of the Borough. The
net deaths of West Ham residents in Public Institutions were
188 infants and 1,364 persons of one year and upwards, making
a total of 1,552 institutional deaths as compared with 2,100
deaths in private residences. Over 57 per cent, of the deaths
during the year occurred in Public Institutions.
Deaths in Outside Institutions :— Under l year and
1 year. upwards.
Whipps Cross Hospital 52 509
Central Home 3 319
Dagenham Sanatorium — 35
Goodmayes Mental Hospital 51
Residents dying in London Institutions, &c. 31 200