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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 9
There was a considerable decrease in the number of death
occurring in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals at
Tooting, only 66 in 1903, compared with 162 in 1902, and a considerable
reduction in the number of deaths in Tooting Home,
31, compared with 56, but the total deaths in Tooting parish are
only two under those for 1902, owing to the opening of the
Tooting Bee Asylum, where during the. year 116 deaths occurred.
The number of deaths in the other institutions in the Borough
remained much the same as in previous years.
Table IV. shows also that the greater proportion of deaths
in the Middlesex Asylum and the Tooting Bee Asylum occurred
from Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Old Age, and all other causes,
which include diseases of the nervous system; in the Hostel of
God from Tuberculosis of the Lungs and Cancer; and in the
Tooting Home from Tuberculosis of the Lungs and Old Age. It
will also be seen that out of 66 deaths in the Fever Hospitals, 13
occurred from non-notifiable diseases.
Table V. shows the number of deaths in public institutions in
the Borough of persons belonging to the Borough arranged
according to cause of death, sex, ages, and institution in which
the death occurred.
The total number of deaths was 130, 51 in the Fever
Hospitals at Tooting, 69 in the Tooting Home, and 10 in other
places. These deaths are in Table XII., allocated to the parishes
to which they belong.
The number of deaths given on Table IV., viz.:—472, and
that on Table V., viz.:—130, make up the total of 602, the total
number of deaths in public institutions in the Borough, as shown
on Table XII.