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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
107
Of the 17 in the Royal Hospital for Incurables, two were from
Influenza, one from Enteritis, two from Erysipelas, one from
Hydrocephalus, two from other forms of Tubercular Diseases,
one from Malignant Disease, one from Pneumonia, and seven from
all other causes.
Of the eight in the Workhouse, seven were from Premature
Birth, and one from Broncho Pneumonia.
Of the 101 deaths of Borough residents in Public Institutions
in the Borough, 98 occurred in Tooting, and three in the Wandsworth
Workhouse.
Of the 98 deaths in Tooting, 84 occurred in the Hospitals of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and 14 in the Tooting Home.
15 of the cases belonged to Clapham, four to Putney, 29 to
Streatham, 15 to Tooting, and 35 to Wandsworth.
The number of deaths in Outlying Institutions arranged as to
causes of death, and the Institutons in which the deaths occurred,
with the number of deaths in each, are shown in Tables 5 and 7.
Mortuaries.
In the report for 1901, the position and condition of the
Mortuaries in the Borough were stated, and no change has during
the year taken place with one exception, viz.:—that the Mortuary
in Putney has been closed, and since the 28th April the Mortuary
in Wandsworth been used. Some of the fittings from the Putney
Mortuary were removed and erected in the Wandsworth Mortuary
In Clapham 43 bodies were removed to the Mortuary, in
Putney up to the 28th April 12, in Streatham 45, in Tooting 11, in
Wandsworth 123, of which 26 were from Putney
Nothing further has been done with reference to the erection
of the new mortuary in Wandsworth as the land on which it had
been decided to build is not yet available.