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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 15
Of the deaths in other places not Public Institutions 12
occurred in Clapham, 16 in Putney, 21 in Streatham, three in
Tooting-, and five in Wandsworth.
Table VI. shows the deaths in Public Institutions in the
Borough of persons not belonging thereto, arranged as to ages,
causes of death, and Institution in which the death occurred.
The greatest number of deaths was due to Old Age, and of
the 166 registered, 121 occurred in Tooting Bee Asylum.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the greatest number of
deaths occurred from Tubercular disease of the Lungs, Old Age,
diseases of the Respiratory Organs, and all other causes, which
include all diseases of the nervous system.
In Tooting Bee Asylum the greatest number of deaths
occurred from Tubercular disease of the Lungs, diseases of the
Respiratory Organs, Old Age, Bright's disease and all other
causes; in the Hostel of God from Tubercular disease of the
Lungs and Cancer; and in the Tooting Home from Tubercular
disease of the Lungs and Old Age.
In the Fever Hospitals, three deaths occurred from Measles,
49 from Scarlet Fever, compared with 46 in 1906, 45 from Diphtheria,
compared with 30, two from Enteric Fever, two from other
Continued Fevers, and four from all other causes.
The two deaths from other Continued Fevers were registered
as due to Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, two males, one of two years
and the other of 13 years, belonging to Croydon and Lambeth
respectively.