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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 1907

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

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14 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE V.

TABLE V.

Name of Public Institutions.Clapham.Putney.StreathamTooting.Wands'th.Total.
Hostel of God58............58
St. Anne's Home......13......13
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum......13...94107
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals.........158...158
Tooting Home.........117...117
H. M. Prison............1010
Workhouse............88
Royal Hospital for Incurables............1212
Tooting Bec Asylum.........262...262
The Priory...5.........5
TOTAL58526537124750
Other places not Institutions1216213557
GRAND TOTAL702147540129807

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Compared with the year 1906, there has been an increase of
43 in the deaths in Institutions and a decrease of seven in other
places, or a total increase of 36, the increase being due to the
increase in the number of deaths in Institutions in Tooting.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the deaths were seven less,
in the Tooting Bec Asylum 36 more, in the Hostel of God three
more, in Tooting Home 13 more, in the Fever Hospitals 11 more,
in the Workhouse three more, in the Prison one more, in the
Royal Hospital for Incurables one less, in St. Anne's Home two
less, in the Priory one less, and in other places seven less than in
the year 1906.