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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE V.

TABLE V.

Name of Public Institutions.Clapham.Putney.StreathamTooting.Wands'th.Total.
Hostel of God55............55
St. Anne's Home......18......18
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum......6...7985
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals.........126...126
Tooting Home.........132...132
H. M. Prison............55
Workhouse............2323
Royal Hospital for Incurables............1212
Tooting Bee Asylum.........268...268
The Priory...7.........7
TOTAL55724526119731
Other places not Institutions15192891687
GRAND TOTAL702652535135818

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Compared with the year 1907 there has been a decrease of 19
in the deaths in Institutions, and an increase of 30 in other places,
or a total increase of 11.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the deaths were 22 less, in
the Tooting Bee Asylum six more, in the Hostel of God three less,
in the Tooting Home 15 more, in the Fever Hospitals 32 less, in
the Workhouse 15 more, in the Prison the same, in the Royal
Hospital for Incurables the same, in St. Anne's Home five more,
in the Priory two more, and in other places 30 more, compared
with the year 1907.