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These 331 Deaths include those non-parishioners who died in
the Charing Cross Hospital, and therefore must be omitted in
estimating the death-rate, but, on the other hand, the deaths
occurring outside the Parish among persons belonging thereto,
must be added. On referring to Table 7, it will at once clearly show
my meaning.
In computing the Death-rate of the Parish, notice is taken, as I have
just stated, of those parishioners dying in Public Institutions outside
the Parish, even to the Edmonton Workhouse of the Strand Union.
In respect of the taking into account the deaths occurring in this
latter institution, in compiling the death-rate of the Parish, I say in
my Annual Report of the previous year, 1891, as follows :—
"It has been a question whether the deaths in the Edmonton
Workhouse should be included in the rate, and I must say not
without reason, for it must be remembered that a great number of
those who die in the Workhouse have been resident there many