View report page

10 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The increase in the number of deaths in these institutions was
due chiefly to an increase in the number in Tooting Bee Asylum and
Tooting Home. In the parish of Tooting the deaths in institutions of
persons not belonging to the Borough shows an increase from 217
to 299.
In the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum the number cf deaths
was two more, and in the Fever hospitals four less than in 1903.
The number of deaths in the Royal Hospital for Incurables was
six more, and in St. Anne's Home seven more than in 1903.
In other places the number of deaths was the same as in 1903.
As will be seen from Table IV., six of these occurred in Clapham, five
in Putney, 11 in Streatham, five in Tooting, and two in Wandsworth.
Table V. also shows that in the Middlesex County Lunatic
Asylum the greater number of deaths occurred from Tubercular
disease of the Lungs, Old Age, and other causes, which include
diseases of
the nervous system; in the Tooting Bee Asylum from
Old Age, Bronchc-Pneumonia, Bright’s Disease and other causes;
in the Hostel of God from Tubercular disease of the Lungs and
Cancer; and in the Tooting Home from Tubercular disease of the
Lungs and Old Age. In the Fever hospitals 17 deaths occurred
from Scarlet Fever, 21 from Diphtheria, and 11 from Enteric Fever,
while 13 occurred from nor.-notifiable diseases.
Compared with 1903 the number of deaths from Tubercular
disease of the Lungs shows an increase in the Middlesex County
Lunatic Asylum and in the Tooting Home, while there was a
decrease in the number of deaths from this cause in the Hostel of
God and Tooting Bec Asylum.
Of the 29 deaths in other places, five were from accidental
and six from suicidal causes.
Table VI. shows the number of deaths in public institutions
in the Borough of persons bel ngiug to the Borough arranged
according to cause of death, sex, age and institution in which the
death occur 1 d.