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Merton 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton]

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Note.—The deaths to be included in Column 7 of this Table are the whole of those registered during the year
as having actually occurred within the district or division. The deaths to be included in Column 12 are
the number in Column 7, corrected by the subtraction of the number in Column 10 and the addition of
the number in Column 11.
By the term "Non-residents" is meant persons brought into the district on account of sickness or infirmity,
and dying in public institutions there; and by the term "Residents" is meant persons who have been
taken out of the district on account of sickness of infirmity, and have died in public institutions
elsewhere.
The "Public institutions" to be taken into account for the purposes of these Tables are those into which persons
are habitually received on account of sickness or infirmity, such as hospitals, workhouses and lunatic
asylums. Institutions in respect of the deaths in which corrections have been made are given at the
foot of this Table.
Total population at all ages 4510
Number of Inhabited houses 937
Average number of persons per house 4.8
At
Census
of 1901.
Area of District in acres (exclusive
of area covered by water). 1765.
Institutions within the District receiving sick and infirm persons from outside the District.
Nil.
Institutions outside the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District.
Brookwood Asylum.
Croydon Union Infirmary.
Croydon Rural District Council's Isolation Hospital, Beddington Corner, Mitcham.
Other Institutions, the deaths in which have been distributed among the several localities in the District.
Lock Hospital, Dean Street, Soho.
The Union Workhouse is not situated within the District.