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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Clapham :—Hostel of God.
Putney :—The Priory, Roehatnpton.
Streatham :—St. Anne's Home. (St. Pancras parish).
Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum (part of).
Tooting :—Tooting Home.
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals—
The Fountain and the Grove.
Newlands Asylum.
Tooting Bee Asylum.
Wandsworth The Workhouse.
Royal Hospital for Incurables.
Northlands Home for Inebriates.
Middlesex Couuty Lunatic Asylum (part ot).
H.M. Prison.
The total population of these institutions was about 6,300, but as
a considerable proportion of the inmates of the Tooting Home, the
Workhouse, and the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals belong
to the Borough, a deduction of 5,510 made from the uncorrected total
population give approximately the corrected population, viz., 285,910,
compared with 264,200 in 1904, and 251,000 in 1903.
A comparison of Tables I. and II. shows that the population of
Clapham has been much under estimated, and also of Wandsworth,
while the population of Tooting has been over estimated.
There are very few boroughs in the Metropolis where the growth
during the last few years has been so rapid, and, consequently, the
difficulty in estimating the population so great. It is unfortunate
from a statistical point of view that a quinquennial census will not be
taken, as the percentage of error will naturally increase until the
next decennial census.
Births.
During the 52 weeks ending the 30th December, 1905, 6,892
births, 3,467 of males and 3,425 of females were registered, compared
with 6,917 in 1904, and 6,722 in 1903.