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DEATHS.
2,046 deaths were registered in the sub-districts of the Borough
during 1924.
12 of these deaths were of persons residing in other sanitary districts,
but who died in our streets or on the way to hospitals.
957 deaths occurred in the Poor-Law Institutions, the various
hospitals, and other public places for the treatment of the sick, found
within our boundaries. These deaths in institutions comprised 443
belonging to Southwark and 514 to other sanitary districts.
The number of inhabitants belonging to the Borough dying away
from home—that is outside our boundaries in the various hospitals and
infirmaries—was 1,141.
When the 526 deaths of those persons who were non-parishioners,
but who died in our Borough, have been deducted, and the 1,111 "outlying''
deaths added, the actual or "corrected" number of deaths
belonging to the sanitary area is found to be 2,661 of which number
1,501 were males and 1,160 females.
The death-rate when calculated on this "corrected" number is 14.2
per 1,000 inhabitants for the whole Borough for the year 1924, as against
a rate of 12-8 for 1923.
The percentage of persons dying away from Southwark in relation to
the total number of deaths belonging to the Borough was 42.8.
The principal localities in which the "outlying" deaths occurred
are as follows
Southwark Hospital 623
Mental Hospitals 123
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals 85
St. Thomas's Hospital 52
Lambeth Hospital 25
Belgrave Hospital 13
King's College Hospital 22
Royal Waterloo Hospital 15
In the Street and other Institutions 183
Total 1141