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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In the sub-districts these rates were as follows—7.31 in
Clapham, 7.44 in Putney, 6.48 in Streatham, 18.79 in Tooting,
and 7.35 in Wandsworth.
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 3,105, compared with
3,520 in 1909, 3,380 in 1908, 3,416 in 1907, 3,461 in 1906, and
4,055 the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
During the year 618 deaths occurred in Public Institutions
and 105 in other places not institutions in the Borough. Of the
total of 723 deaths, 564 were of persons not belonging and 159 of
persons belonging to the Borough.
Table VII. shows the total number of Institution deaths
arranged according to sub-districts and Institutions in which they
occurred, Table VIII. the deaths of persons not belonging to the
Borough, and Table IX. of persons belonging thereto arranged
according to causes of death, sex and age, and Institution in
which the death occurred.