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8
DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in the Borough during the
year amounted to 1,406 (including those of 27 "illegitimate"
children and 6 uncertified deaths), equivalent to a rate of
iro per 1,000 living. This figure only represents the rate of deaths
occurring in the Borough, and is subject to correction.
In the first place, it is necessary to add to this total the
number of deaths (208) of persons who were residents of East
Ham and died in institutions outside the Borough, and then to
exclude from the latter total the number of deaths (2) of visitors
from other parishes who died in Public Institutions in the
Borough.
After these additions and deductions have been made, the
mortality rate equals 13-77.
To obtain the corrected death-rate of a district, consideration
has to be given to the age and sex distribution. The RegistrarGeneral
has fixed the factor for correction for East Ham as
1.067.
The corrected death-rate for the past year equals 14.69.
Of these 1,612 deaths registered in the Borough, 353 belonged
to Manor Park Ward, 519 to Plashet Ward, 612 to Central Ward,
and 128 to Beckton and N. Woolwich Ward.
The deaths of East Ham residents which occurred outside the
Borough, were—30 in West Ham Workhouse, 88 in West Ham
Infirmary, 49 in London Hospital, 7 in East London Children's
Hospital, 1 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 4 in Great Ormonde
Street Hospital, 4 in Victoria Park Hospital, 2 in Westminster
Hospital, 2 in German Hospital, Hackney, and 21 in other
institutions.
The total number of deaths belonging to the Borough is
equivalent to a recorded death-rate of 13.77 as compared with 11.4
for the previous year.