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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 13
The uncorrected death-rate for the Borough was 10*24 Per
1,000, compared with 10.57 in 1906, 11.12 in 1905, and 12.22 in
1904.
The average for the decennium 1897-1906 was 12.55, or 2.31
above the rate for the year 1907.
In the separate sub-districts this rate shows considerable variation,
in Streatham the rate being only 7 92, while in Tooting it
was 25.60. The reason for this high rate in Tooting is that in
that sub-district there are a large number of Public Institutions,
as the Fever Hospitals, Tooting Home, and Tooting Bec Asylum,
where persons from other localities are received, and among
whom the mortality is very high.
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 3,416, compared with 3,461 in 1906,
3,320 in 1905, 3,417 in 1904, 3,023 in 1903, 3,328 in 1902, 3,130 in
1901, and 4,184 the decennial average corrected for increase of
population.
The total number of deaths was thus 768 under this average,
compared with 697 in 1906, 562 in 1905, no in 1904, and 433 in
1903.
During the year 750 deaths occurred in Public Institutions
and 57 in other places not Institutions in the Borough. Of these
807, 660 deaths were of persons not belonging and 147 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.