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Calculated on the Registrar General's estimate of the
population of the Borough at the middle of 1928, viz., 306,900,
the birth rate for the year was 19.2.
Deaths.
The number of deaths registered during the year was 2,126,
but of these 176 occurred in persons not belonging to the Borough,
while the deaths of 1,390 residents of West Ham occurred in
various institutions and districts elsewhere, making the total net
deaths attributable to the Borough number 3,340, of which 1,797
were males and 1,543 females.
The distribution of these deaths to their various causes will
be found later in this report, but the grand total of from all causes
gives an annual death rate of 10.8 per 1,000 of the estimated
population.
Deaths in Public Institutions.
The great use made of the facilities for Institutional
treatment is shown by the subjoined table. The larger Institutions
serving the Borough, such as Whipps Cross Hospital and the
Central Home of the Board of Guardians, and the Borough Mental
Hospital, are situate outside the Borough boundary, while in
addition many West Ham residents are received into the London
Hospitals and Institutions elsewhere. Similarly the Public
Institutions within the Borough (Queen Mary's Hospital for the
East End, St. Mary's Hospital, Plaistow Maternity Hospital, the
Children's Hospital (Balaam Street), 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 from West Ham.
It will be noted that in the former group (outside Institutions)
87 infants and 1,251 persons over the age of one year died during
the year, and in the latter group (inside Institutions) 130 infants
and 346 elders died, of which numbers 178 were non-residents of
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