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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
30 of the Inquests were held on persons not belonging to the
Borough who died in the Borough. Nine of the inquests were on
persons who died in the Tooting Bec Asylum, seven in H.M. Prison,
four in the Middlesex County Asylum, one in the Grove Fever
Hospital, one in the Hostel of God, and eight who died in other
places, as in the River Thames, and on the streets.
The following Table shows the number of Inquests held on
residents in the Borough who died outside the Borough. The large
number in which a verdict of accidental death was returned is due to
the fact that cases of accident are often removed from this Borough to
a general hospital where the Inquest is held if the case proves fatal.