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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
in 1903. The average for the decennium 1896-1905 was 12.97, so
that the rate for the year is 2.40 lower than the average and is the
lowest ever recorded.
In the separate sub-districts this rate varied very much, and
it was especially high in Tooting owing to the number of deaths
occurring in Institutions in the sub-district. The rate was 9.21
per 1,000 in Clapham, 8.89 in Putney, 8.01 in Streatham, 23.61
in Tooting, and 9.78 in Wandsworth.
To ascertain the corrected death-rate corrections must be
made to the above by the addition of the deaths in Outlying
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 domiciles were in other
parts of London.
The total number of deaths, corrected for both internal and
external Institutions, was 3,461, compared with 3,320 in 1905,
3,417 in 1904, 3,023 in 1903, 3,328 in 1902, 3,130 in 1901, and
4,158 the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
The total number of deaths was thus 697 under this average,
compared with 562 in 1905, 110 in 1904, and 433 in 1903.
During the year 707 deaths occurred in Public Institutions
and 64 in other places not Institutions in the Borough. Of these
771, 611 deaths were of persons not belonging and 160 of persons
belonging to the Borough.
Table V. shows the total number of Institution deaths
arranged according to sub-districts and Institutions in which they
occurred, Table VI. the deaths of persons not belonging to the
Borough, and Table VII. of persons belonging thereto arranged
according to causes of death, sex and age, and Institution in
which the death occurred.