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outside the borough numbered 396, and occurred in
the following institutions:—
St. George's Hospital 61
West London Hospital 26
Other General Hospitals 55
Children's Hospitals 33
Other Special Hospitals 47
Homes for advanced cases 20
Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board 31
Poor Law Infirmaries 27
Lunatic Asylums 47
In Nursing Homes, Private Houses and elsewhere 49
396
Of the deaths registered, 794 or 43.5 per cent. took
place either in Poor Law Institutions, in hospitals or
in public lunatic asylums, the percentages in the
various classes of institutions being as under:—
Deaths in Workhouses or Workhouse Infirmaries 23.1
,, Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals 3.8
,, other Hospitals13.9
,, Public Lunatic and Imbecile Asylums 2.7
43.5
In the County of London, 46.8 per cent. of the deaths
occurred in public institutions.
Infantile Mortality.—Of the 1,827 deaths, 320, or
17.3% were of infants under one year of age, and the
rate of infant mortality measured by the proportion
of deaths under one year to registered births was 74
per 1,000, which is the lowest rate recorded in Fulham.
The infantile death-rate of England and Wales was 80,
that of the County of London 75 per 1,000, and
in the Metropolitan Boroughs the rates ranged from
48, in Hampstead, to 94, in Bethnal Green.