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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The population estimated as above may be to some extent
checked by another method of estimating it from the inhabited
houses in the Borough.
At the Census of 1901, the number of inhabited houses was
37,764, and the number of persons per inhabited house 6.1, while
in 1902 the number increased to 40,423, and in 1903 to 42,531.
If this last number be multiplied by 6.1 it gives as the population
259,439, an increase of 3,147 compared with the population as
estimated by the first method. It is probable that this latter
estimation is nearer the truth, as the increase in the number of
new houses has been very great since the last Census.
The public institutions in the Borough are as follows: —
Clapham:—Hostel of God.
Putnty:—The Priory, Roehampton.
Streatham: —St. Anne's Home. (St. Pancras parish).
Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum (part of).
Tooting: —Tooting Home.
Fairfield House. (Chelsea parish.)
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals—
The Fountain and The Grove.
Newlands Asylum.
Tooting Bee Asylum.
wandsworth:—The Workhouse.
Royal Hospital for Incurables.
Northlands Home for Incurables.
Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum.
H.M. Prison.
One institution, the Tooting Bec Asylum, has been occupied
during the year, and one, the Fountain Fever Hospital, is not at
present in use.
The total population of these institutions was about 6,300, but
as a considerable number of the inmates of the Tooting Home,
the Workhouse, and the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals
belong to the Borough, a deduction of 5,292 made from the
uncorrected total will give approximately the corrected population,
viz.:—251,000, compared with 240,800 in 1902, and 228,702 in
1901.