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In this Annual Report for 1891, there are included
for the first time the deaths of persons returned as coming
from St. James's District, but dying in outlying institutions.
Against these deaths, as affecting the District of St.
James's, Westminster, are to be set the deaths of strangers
who come to London for medical advice and die in hotels
and lodging houses. A very large number of hotels and
lodging houses exist in St. James's, and in St. James's
these deaths have in former years been taken as balancing
those from St. James's occurring in outlying institutions,
though the deaths of strangers occurring in the Union
House, and in the Throat Hospital, being precisely ascertainable,
have always been deducted from the gross mortality
occurring in St. James's.