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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 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 185, 106 of males and 79 of
females, compared with 147 in 1907, and 160 in 1906.
48 of the deaths occurred in the Fever Hospitals, compared
with 53 in 1907; 64 in Tooting Home, compared with 49; six in
the Hostel of God, compared with nine; 11 in the Workhouse,
compared with three; 14 in Tooting Bee Asylum, compared with
six; and 37 in other places, compared with 27.
These deaths are allocated to their proper sub-districts in
Table XV.
The number of deaths in Table VI., viz.:—633, and that in
Table VII., viz. 185, make up the total of 818, 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.