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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In the sub-districts these rates were as follows:—10.84 in
Clapham, 8.64 in Putney, 878 in Streatham, 21.53 in Tooting
and 10.09 in Wandsworth.
The reason for the high rate in Tooting is that in that subdistrict
there are a number of Public Institutions, as the Tooting
Bec Asylum and the Tooting Home, where persons from other
parts of London are received and among whom the mortality is
very great.
To ascertain the corrected death-rate corrections must be
made to the above by the addition of the deaths in Out-lying
Institutions and other places of persons belonging to the Borough,
and the subtraction of all deaths in Public Institutions and other
places in the Borough of persons not belonging thereto, whose
domiciles were in other parts of London.
The deaths occurring in other parts of England and Wales
are for the first time included, as these are now received from the
Registrar General. Only the deaths occurring in the first three
quarters of the year are, however, available this year.
The total number of deaths for the 52 weeks, corrected for
both internal and external Institutions and other places was 3,776,
compared with 3,105 in 1910, 3,520 in 1909, 3,380 in 1908, 3,416
in 1907, 3,461 in 1906, and 3,871 the decennial average corrected
for increase of population.
During the year 721 deaths occurred in Public Institutions
and 129 in other places in the Borough. Of the total of 850 deaths,
669 were of persons not belonging and 181 of persons belonging to
the Borough.
Table IX. shows the total number of Institution deaths
arranged according to sub-districts and Institutions in which they
occurred, Table X. the deaths of persons not belonging to the
Borough, and Table XI. of persons belonging thereto arranged
according to causes of death, sex and age, and Institution in which
the death occurred.