Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table IX. 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 159, 63 of males and 96 of
females, compared with 181 in 1909, 185 in 1908, and 147 in 1907.
24 of the deaths occurred in the Fever Hospitals, compared
with 37 in 1909; 49 in Tooting Home, compared with 67; nine in
the Hostel of God, compared with three; 15 in the Workhouse,
compared with 41; 11 in the Tooting Bee Asylum, compared with
nine; and 51 in other places, compared with 40.
These deaths are allocated to their proper sub-districts in
Table XVIII.
The number of deaths in Table VIII., viz.:—564, and that in
Table IX., viz.:—159, make up the total of 723, the total number
of deaths in Public Institutions in the Borough as shown in the
last column of Table XVIII., and in column nine of Table XIV.