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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The rates in all the sub-districts show a considerable decreasecompared
with the year 1904.
This decrease was as follows:—Clapham, from 14.25 to 10.68
per 1,000, a decrease of 3.57; Putney, 12.00 to 10.70 a decrease of
1.30; Streatham, 10.66 to 10.06, a decrease of .60; Tooting 13.03 to
11.91, a decrease of 1.12; and Wandsworth, 14.79 to 13.03 a decrease
of 1.79.
The rates in this Table do not agree with the rates in Table X. as
the latter are calculated on the total population without deducting the
population of non-parishioners in Public Institutions in the Borough.
The first Chart shows the annual death-rate per 1,000 of
population during each week of the year for the whole of London, and
for each fortnight for the Borough.
At no time during the year was the rate in the Borough higher
than for all London, and for the most part it was considerably lower.
Only in September was there a closer approximation between the two
rates, this being due to the Diarrhoea deaths in this Borough occurring
chiefly in the last fortnight of August, and the first fortnight of
September, whereas in London generally the number of deaths from
these causes reached its maximum at an earlier period.
The next Chart shows the death-rate in the Borough compared
with the rate for the year 1904, which shows that the rate was about
the same in January, much lower in the first fortnight and slightly
higher in the second fortnight in February, lower in March, April and
May, higher in June, higher in the first fortnight and lower in the
second fortnight of July, lower in August, higher in the first two
fortnights in September and lower in the third, slightly higher in
October, higher in November, and about the same in December.
In three fortnights during the year the rate was above 15 per
1,000, and in seven fortnights the rate was under 10 per 1,000.
As in previous years the high rates in the last fortnight in August
and the first fortnight of September were due to the number of deaths
of infants from Diarrhoea and other diseases of the organs of digestion,
while the higher rates in January and December were due to the