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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE VII.

TABLE VII.

Name of Public Institutions.Clapham.Putney.StreathamTooting.Wands'th.Total.
Hostel of God59............59
St. Anne's Home......7......7
Middlesex LunaticAsylum......5...7378
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals.........54...54
Tooting Home.........94...94
H.M. Prison............88
Workhouse............3030
Royal Hospital for Iacurables............1212
Tooting Bec Asylum.........261...261
The Priory...2.........2
Jews' Home......13......13
TOTAL59225409123618
Other places not Institutions2028351111105
GRAND TOTAL793060420134723

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Compared with the year 1909 there has been a decrease of
127 in the deaths in Institutions, and an increase of 13 in other
places, or a total decrease of 114.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the deaths were 12 less, in
the Tooting Bee Asylum 41 less, in the Hostel of God 23 more,
in the Tooting- Home 20 less, in the Fever Hospitals 30 less, in
the Workhouse 38 less, in the Prison two more, in the Royal
Hospital for Incurables two less, in St. Anne's Home 15 less, in
The Priory seven less, and in other places 13 more, compared
with the year 1909. In the Jews' Home, Nightingale Lane, six
deaths occurred in 1909, and 13 in 1910.