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8 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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 5,730 made
from the uncorrected total population gives, approximately, the
corrected population, viz.:—320,120, compared with 310,310 in
1906, 285,910 in 1905, and 264,200 in 1904.
The population of this Borough for the purposes of the
Equalisation of Rates Act was estimated in 1906 as 296,020, and
in 1907 as 308,663, these populations being calculated from the
number of rated houses.
Births.
During the 52 weeks ending the 28th December, 7,036 births,
3,604 of males and 3,432 of females, were registered, compared
with 7,057 in 1906, 6,892 in 1905, and 6,917 in 1904.
In Table III. is shown the number of births, males and
females, the birth-rate, and the rate of natural increase for each
sub-district, and for the whole Borough.