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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Tooting:—Tooting- Home.
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital —
The Fountain and the Grove.
Newlands Asylum.
Tooting Bee Asylum.
Wandsworth:—The Workhouse.
Royal Hospital for Incurables.
Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum
(part of).
H.M. Prison.
The total population of these Institutions was about 6,300,
but as a proportion of the inmates of the Tooting Home, the
Workhouse, and the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals
belong to this Borough, a deduction of 5,900 made from the
uncorrected total population gives, approximately, the corrected
population, viz.:—343,800, compared with 339,100 in 1909,,
329,700 in 1908, and 320,120 in 1907.
Births.
During the 52 weeks ending the 31st December, 1910, 6,967
births, 3,570 of males and 3,397 of females, were registered, compared
with 6,985 in 1909, 7,331 in 1908, 7,036 in 1907, and 7,057
in 1906.
The total number of births registered in this Borough was.
6,873, but 166 births occurred in Institutions outside the Borough.
of persons belonging to the Borough, and 72 births in Institutions
in the Borough of persons not belonging to the Borough, making
a corrected total of 6,967.
Of the 166 births which were registered outside the Borough,
all occurred in Lying-in Institutions, 93 in Clapham Maternity,
43 in the General Lying-in Hospital, and 30 in various Institutions
in other parts of London.