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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Parish of Tooting. 89

Table: TABLE I.Birth and Death Rates.

TABLE I.

Birth and Death Rates.

Years.Births.Birth-Bates.Deaths from alt causes.Death-rates.Rates of Natural Increase
138914624.337813.1611.17
189016826.210918.67.9
189117.329.089316.0310.8
189216431.013124.86.2
189321340.111221.119.0
189414926.2103*18.1*8.1*
189519731.5115*20.5*11.0*
*Corrected statistics.

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1 Deaths in Outying
Institutions.
Table II. includes the deaths of parishioners
occurring in the various outlying Public Institutions of
the Metropolis.
Thirteen deaths are recorded, four of males and nine
of females. Four of the deaths took place in the Wandsworth
and Clapham Union Infirmary, eight in the general
and special Hospitals of the Metropolis, and one in the
Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.