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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Compared with 1905 there were 24 more deaths from Tubercular
disease of the Lungs, 20 more from Old Age, and 10 more
from Diphtheria; while there were four less from Scarlet Fever,
11 less from Cancer, and 32 less from all other causes.
Of the 44 deaths in other places, nine were from Accidental
and seven from Suicidal causes.
Table VII. shows the number of deaths in Public Institutions
in the Borough of persons belonging thereto, arranged according
to cause of death, sex, age, and Institution in which the death
occurred.
The total number of deaths was 160, 84 of males and 74 of
females, compared with 119, 66 of males and 53 of females, in
1905.
55 of the deaths occurred in the Fever Hospitals, compared
with 50 in 1905; 60 in the Tooting Home, compared with 51; 10
in the Hostel of God, compared with one; six in the Workhouse,
compared with five; nine in the Tooting Bee Asylum, compared
with five; and 20 in other places, compared with six.
These deaths are allocated to their proper sub-districts in
Table XV.
The number of deaths in Table VI., viz.:—611, and that in
Table VII., viz.:—160, make up the total of 771, the total number
of deaths in Public Institutions in the Borough as shown in
the last column of Table XV., and in column 9 of Table XI.