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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
That early marriages have something to do with this is also
evidenced by the number of deaths from Developmental Diseases,
and I have no doubt but that if all stillborn children were registered
this would be still more evident.
The general infantile rate in the Borough is only fairly satisfactory,
but if the rate in Tooting had been similar to that of
the other sub-districts this rate would have been fourth, instead of
eighth, in the Metropolitan Boroughs.
In Table 27 it will be seen that the rate for the Borough is
10 per 1,000 under last year, but that Tooting shows an increase
of 19, and Streatham of one per 1,000 births, compared with 1900,
the other sub-districts being lower.
Inquests.
The next Table shows the number of Inquests held during
the year.
The total number was 207, compared with 196 in 1900.
Clapham shows an increase of nine, Putney of 16, Tooting of
four, while Streatham shows a decrease of one, and Wandsworth
of 15, compared with last year.
113, or 54.6 per cent. of the Inquests were deaths from natural
causes; 69, or 33.3 per cent., from accidental causes; 19, or 9.2
per cent., from suicidal causes. In five, open verdicts were
returned; and one execution took place during the year at the
Wandsworth Prison.