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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 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The next Table gives the number of blind, &c., in this
Borough.
Of the 1,599 lunatic and imbecile or feeble-minded, 1,331
were resident in the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, 77 in the Priory,
Roehampton (private asylum), 11 in the Huguenots Private
Asylum, Wandsworth, and 19 in the Newlands Private Asylum,
Tooting, a total of 1,438, leaving 161 of lunatics in the Borough.