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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table I. shows that since 1901 there has been a very great
increase in all the Wards with the exception of Fairfield, where
it has only been very slight. The estimated population corrected
for Institutions in 1905 was 285,910, so that there has been in one
year an estimated increase of 24,400, while the rated hereditaments
have increased from 54,870 to 58,926. Since 1901 the
increase has been 83,966, and this increase has been greatest in
Tooting, Southfield, and Streatham, and least in Clapham North
and Fairfield Wards.
The corrected population in Table II. is used to calculate the
rates in this Report.
The difference between the corrected and uncorrected population
is made up by the population in the Public Institutions of
the Borough, which are as follows:—
Clapham:—Hostel of God.
Putney:—The Priory, Roehampton.
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 County Lunatic Asylum
(part of).
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 other Boroughs, a deduction of 5,690 made