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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths in Institutions, viz., 729, is an increase
of 60 compared with the previous year. This increase is chiefly due
to the increased number of deaths in the Fever Hospitals, Tooting
Home, and the Tooting Bec Asylum.
In the Hostel of God the number of deaths was 11, in the St.
Anne's Home one, and in the Middlesex County Asylum five less than
in the year 1904.
In the Metropolitan Asylum Board's Fever Hospitals there were
28 more, in the Tooting Bec Asylum 36 more, and in the Tooting
Home 20 more than in 1904.
In other places not Institutions the number of deaths was 28,
compared with 32 in 1904.
In Table V. it will be seen that of these five occurred in Clapham,
three in Putney, eight in Streatham, eight in Tooting, and four in
Wandsworth.
In Table VI. will be seen that of persons not belonging to the
Borough the greatest number occurred from Old Age, and that of the
total of 134, 93 occurred in the Tooting Bec Asylum.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the greatest number of deaths
occurred from Tubercular Disease of the Lungs, Old Age, and other
causes, which include all diseases of the nervous system. In the
Tooting Bec Asylum the greatest number occurred from Old Age,
Cancer, Broncho-Pneumonia, 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, Old Age, and other
causes.
In the Fever Hospitals 50 deaths occurred from Scarlet Fever,
compared with 17 in 1904, 20 from Diphtheria compared with 21, five
from Enteric Fever compared with 11, and eight non-notifiable diseases
compared with 13.
Compared with 1904 there were fewer deaths from Tubercular
Disease of the Lungs in the Middlesex County Asylum and the Hostel
of God, and more in the Tooting Bec Asylum and the Tooting
Home.