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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the deaths were five more,
in the Tooting Bee Asylum 34 more, in the Hostel of God 19 less,
in the Tooting Home 18 less, in the Fever Hospitals 42 less, in
the Workhouse 45 more, in the Prison one more, in the Royal
Hospital for Incurables two more, in St. Anne's Home four more,
in The Priory two more, and in other places five more, compared
with the year 1908.
Of the deaths in other places not Public Institutions 14
occurred in Clapham, 17 in Putney, 38 in Streatham, nine in
Tooting, and 14 in Wandsworth.
Table VI. shows the deaths in Public Institutions in the
Borough of persons not belonging thereto, arranged as to ages,
causes of death, and Institution in which the death occurred.
The greatest number of deaths was due to Old Age, and of
the 172 registered, 123 occurred in Tooting Bee Asylum, 28 in the
Tooting Home, and 10 in the Middlesex County Asylum.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the greatest number of
deaths occurred from Tubercular disease of the Lungs, Old Age,
disease of the Respiratory Organs, Bright's disease, and all other
causes, which include all diseases of the nervous system.
In Tooting Bee Asylum the greatest number of deaths
occurred from Tubercular disease of the Lungs, diseases of the
Respiratory Organs, Old Age, Bright's disease, Cancer, and all
other causes; in the Hostel of God from Tubercular disease of the
Lungs and Cancer; and in the Tooting Home from Tubercular
disease of the Lungs, Old Age, and all other causes.
In the Fever Hospitals 18 deaths occurred from Scarlet
Fever, compared with 46 in 1908, 28 from Diphtheria, compared
with 27, and one from Lobar Pneumonia.