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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 1902

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

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Re-port of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of corrected deaths was 3,304 in the 53
weeks, or 3,251 when corrected for the additional week. In 1901
the number of corrected deaths was 3,116, in 1900, 3,200, and the
average for the ten years 1892-1901 was, corrected for increase of
population, 3,470, or 219 above the year 1902.
During the year there occurred in public institutions in the
Borough 463 deaths of persons not belonging to the Borough and
24 deaths occurred in other places not institutions.
The following Table shows these deaths arranged according
to sub-districts, and also the institutions in which the deaths took
place.

Table: TABLE 111.

TABLE 111.

Name of Public Institutions.Clapham.Putney.StreathamTooting.Wands'th.Total.
Hostel of God65........65
Convent of Notre Dame1........1
St. Anne's Home....9....9
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum....10..129139
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals......162..162
Tooting Home......56..56
Fairfield House......1..1
H. M. Prison........88
Workhouse........55
Royal Hospital for Incurables........1717
TOTAL66..19219159463
Other places not Institutions792••624
GRAND TOTAL73921219165487

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The death-rate for the whole Borough after correction was
I3.43, compared with 13.33 per 1,000 in 1901.