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Wandsworth 1909

[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 181, 92 of males and 89 of
females, compared with 185 in 1908, 147 in 1907, and 160 in 1906.
37 of the deaths occurred in the Fever Hospitals, compared
with 48 in 1908; 67 in Tooting Home, compared with 64; three in
the Hostel of God, compared with six ; 41 in the Workhouse, compared
with 11; nine in the Tooting Bee Asylum, compared with
14; and 40 in other places, compared with 37.
These deaths are allocated to their proper sub-districts in
Table XV.
The number of deaths in Table VI., viz. :—656, and that in
Table VII., viz. :—181, make up the total of 837, 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.