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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In other places not Institutions 87 deaths occurred, 15 of
these being from Accidents, three from Cancer, eight from Suicide,
four from Tubercular disease of the Lungs, two from disease of
the Heart, eight from diseases of the Respiratory Organs, four
from Old Age, three from Nephritis, one from Influenza, one from
Erysipelas, and 19 from all other causes. 27 of these deaths
occurred in Private Nursing Homes, and eight in the River
Thames.
There has been a marked increase in the number of deaths in
Institutions, and to show that the increase has been going on for
for some years the following Table has been prepared.
The comparative percentages for London are also shown, and
it will be noted that in the 20 years 1888-1907 this increased in
London from 23.6 to 39.8, with an average of 30.2, and in Wandsworth
from 15.2 to 25.9, with an average of 18.6.
In this Borough the percentage is lower than for the whole
of London, and this is what might be expected in consequence of
the social condition of the population, but in spite of the better
social condition it is rather startling to find that over 25 per cent,
of the total deaths occurred in Institutions, and that for the year
1908 12. per cent, occurred in Pauper Institutions.
Compared with the 20 years' average the greatest increase
has occurred among the deaths in General and Special Hospitals,
while the deaths in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals
show no marked difference.
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