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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total population of the above Institutions was 7,855, an
increase of 1,885 since 1901, the increase being largely due to the
erection of Tooting Bec Asylum.
As, however, a proportion of the inmates of the Footing
Home, the Workhouse, and the Metropolitan Asylums Board's
Hospitals belong to this Borough, a deduction of 5,189 persons,
3,164 males and 2,025 females, made from the uncorrected population
gives approximately the corrected population, 308,156, compared
with 300,061 in 1910, and 290,462 in 1909.
As the complete Census returns will not be available till the
close of 1912, no particulars can be given as to occupation or
overcrowding.
Births.
During the 52 weeks ending the 30th December, 1911, 6,699
births, 3,365 of males and 3,334 of females, were registered, compared
with 6,967 in 1910, 6,985 in 1909, 7,331 in 1908, and 7,036
in 1907.
The total number of births registered in this Borough was
6,555, but 216 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 6,699.
Of the 216 births which were registered outside the Borough,
with the exception of 10 all occurred in Poor-Law or Lying-in
Institutions, 107 in Clapham Maternity, 47 in the General Lying-in
Hospital, 24 in St. Thomas's Hospital, and 38 in various Institutions
in other parts of London.
In Table V. is shown the number of births, males and females,
the birth-rate, and the rate of natural increase for each sub-district,
and for the whole Borough.