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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The number of deaths from Tubercular diseases, and the rate
per 1,000 in each of the sub-districts and in the whole Borough,
is shown in the following Table:—
TABLE XXVI.
Sub-District.
Phthisis.
Other Tubercular
Diseases.
Total.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate.
Clapham
68
1.25
34
.62
102
1.88
Putney
20
.82
5
.20
25
1.02
Streatham
58
.79
31
.42
89
1.22
Tooting
16
.93
17
.99
33
1.92
Wandsworth
97
1. 40
42
.60
139
2.01
Whole Borough ..
259
1.10
129
.55
388
1. 65
Calculated from the corrected population these rates would
be slightly higher, e.g., Phthisis 1.12, Other Tubercular Diseases
.56, and the total deaths from Tubercular Diseases 1.68 per
1,000. This correction makes the rate comparable with the
rate for all London, as shown in Table IV.
From this Table it will be seen that Streatham, which
includes Balham (a district which has increased rapidly within
the last few years), has a lower rate from Phthisis than any of
the Metropolitan Boroughs, and the same may be said of Putney.
Clapham and Wandsworth are higher than the three other districts,
and this is, no doubt, largely due to the greater density
of the population, the density in the various sub-districts being:—
Clapham 48 persons per acre.
Putney 10.8 „
Streatham 25.7 „
Tooting 30.1 „
Wandsworth 27.0 „
The above does not give a true idea of the density of the
population in some of the portions of the sub-districts. Take,