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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Population.
Wandsworth: —
Workhouse 709
Royal Hospital for Incurables 308
Home for Inebriates, Northlands 18
Lunatic Asylum, County of Middlesex 1,262
Lunatic Asylum, Huguenots 20
H.M. Prison 1,350
Boys' Home 132
Putney:—
Priory, Roehampton 174
a total of 6,280.
As, however, a considerable number of the residents in
some of these institutions belong to the Borough, especially in
the Fever Hospitals, the Workhouse, and the Tooting Home, a
deduction of 5,000 has been made from the estimated population
in calculating the true death-rate for the Borough.
Births.
6,107 births, 3,070 of males and 3,037 of females, were
registered during the year, compared with 5,754 in 1900, and
5,545 in 1809. In Table 7 is shown the number of births in
each sub-district as well as the birth-rate and the rate of natural
increase.
134 births took place in the Wandsworth Workhouse, a
decrease of 9 compared with 1900; of these 52 belonged to
Battersea, 11 to Clapham, 10 to Putney, 17 to Streatham, 17 to
Tooting, and 27 to Wandsworth.