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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Of the deaths in other places not Public Institutions 20
occurred in Clapham, 28 in Putney, 35 in Streatham, ix in
Tooting, and 11 in Wandsworth.
Table VIII. 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 138 registered, 111 occurred in Tooting Bee Asylum, 13 in the
Tooting Home, six in the Workhouse, and four 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, Enteritis,
and all other causes, which include all diseases of the nervous,
system.
In Tooting Bec Asylum the greatest number of deaths
occurred from diseases of the Respiratory Organs, Old Age,
Softening of the Brain, 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 10 deaths occurred from Scarlet
Fever, compared with 18 in 1909, 15 from Diphtheria, compared
with 28, two from Lobar Pneumonia, one from Measles, one from,
Tubercular Meningitis, and one from Accident.