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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 Hoard of Guardians, and the Borough
Mental Hospital, are 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 Hospital), receiving 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)
102 infants and 1,362 persons over the age of one year died during
the year, and in the latter group (inside Institutions) 96 infants
and 224 elders died, of which numbers 179 were non-residents of
the Borough. The net deaths of West Ham residents in Public
Institutions were 147 infants and 1,458 persons of one year and
upwards, making a total of 1,605 Institutional Deaths as compared
with 1,658 deaths in private residences, i.e., over 46 per
cent. of the deaths during the year occurred in Public Institutions.
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