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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 late Board of Guardians, and the Borough
Mental Hospital, arc situated 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)
98 infants and 1,437 persons over the age of one year died during
the year, and in the latter group (inside Institutions) 87 infants
and 215 elders died, of which numbers 176 were non-residents of
the Borough. The net deaths of West Ham residents in Public
Institutions were 133 infants and 1,528 persons of one year and
upwards, making a total of 1,061 Institutional Deaths as compared
with 2,265 deaths in private residences, i.e., over 42 per
cent, of the deaths during the year occurred in Public Institutions.
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