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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Deaths.
During the 52 weeks ending the 1st January, 1910, 3,279
deaths, 1,589 of males and 1,690 of females were registered, compared
with 3,230 in 1908, 3,337 in 1907, and 3,341 in 1906.
Compared with 1908 there has been an increase of 49 deaths,
but a decrease of 885 compared with the decennial average corrected
for increase of population.
The uncorrected death-rate for the Borough was 9 50 per
1,000, compared with 9.63 in 1908, 10.24 in 1907, and 10.57 in
1906.
The average uncorrected rate for the decennium 1899-1908
was 11.76, or 2.26 above the rate for the year 1909.
In the sub-districts Streatham had much the lowest rate,
viz.:—7.17, and Tooting the highest, viz. :—23.53.
The reason for the high rate in Tooting is that in that subdistrict
there are a number of Public Institutions, as the Tooting
Bee Asylum and the Tooting Home, where persons from other
parts of London are received and among whom the mortality is
very great.
To ascertain the corrected death-rate corrections must be
made to the above by the addition of the deaths in Out-lying
Institutions of persons belonging to the Borough, and the subtraction
of all deaths in Public Institutions in the Borough of
persons not belonging thereto, whose domiciles were in other
parts of London.
The total number of deaths for the 52 weeks, corrected for
both internal and external Institutions was 3,520, compared with
3,380 in 1908, 3,416 in 1907, 3,461 in 1906, 3,320 in 1905, 3,417 in
1904, 3,023 in 1903, 3,328 in 1902, 3,130 in 1901, and 4,175 the
decennial average corrected for increase of population,