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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 17
There has been a considerable reduction in the number of
deaths from Tubercular disease of the Lungs in these Institutions
compared with 1906, only 66 deaths, 43 of males and 23 of
females, having occurred, compared with 94, 53 of males and 41
of females in 1906.
From Scarlet Fever the number of deaths is three more, from
Diphtheria 15 more, from Cancer seven more, and from all other
causes 27 more than in 1906.
Of the 32 deaths in other places, four were from Accidental
and four 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 147, 85 of males and 62 of
females, compared with 160 in 1906, and 119 in 1905.
53 of the deaths occurred in the Fever Hospitals, compared
with 55 in 1906; 49 in Tooting Home, compared with 60; nine in
the Hostel of God, compared with 10; three in the Workhouse,
compared with six; six in Tooting Bee Asylum, compared with
nine; and 27 in other places, compared with 20.
These deaths are allocated to their proper sub-districts in
Table XV.
The number of deaths in Table VI., viz.:—660, and that in
Table VII., viz.:—147, make up the total of 807, the total number
of deaths in Public Institutions in the Borough as shown in the
last column of Table XV., and in column nine of Table XI.