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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of illegitimate births, including those in the
Workhouse, was 165, of which 19 belonged to Clapham, 13 to Putney,
42 to Streatham, 28 to Tooting, and 63 to Wandsworth.
The percentage of illegitimate births to total births was 2 4, compared
with 3.8 for the whole of London for the year 1904.
Deaths.
During the fifty-two weeks ending the 30th December, 1905,
3,241 deaths (1,613 of males and 1,628 of females) were registered in
the Borough, compared with 3,296 in 1904, 3,007 in 1903, 3,209 in
1902, and 3,009 in 1901.
The total number of deaths for the year is thus 55 less than the
number in 1904, and 540 under the corrected decennial average.
The uncorrected death-rate was 11.12, compared with 12.22 in
1904, 11.69 in 1903, 12.84 in 1902, and 12.82 in 1901. The average
for the decennium 1895—19°4 was 13.36, so that the uncorrected
death-rate is considerably lower, and is the lowest rate ever recorded.
To ascertain the corrected death-rate corrections must be made
to the above by the addition of the deaths in out-lying institutions of
persons belonging to the Borough, and the subtraction of all deaths
in public institutions in the Borough of persons not belonging thereto,
whose domicile was in other parts of London.
The total number of deaths corrected for both external and
internal institutions was 3,320, compared with 3,417 in 1904,3,073
in 1903, 3,328 in 1902, 3,130 in 1901, and 3,882, the corrected
decennial average.
The total number of corrected deaths was 562 under the decennial
average corrected for increase of population, while in 1904 this was
only 110, and in 1903 433.
During the year 701 deaths occurred in Public Institutions, and
28 at other places not institutions in the Borough. Of these 729, 610
deaths were of persons not belonging to the Borough, and 119 of
persons belonging to the Borough.