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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Of the deaths in other places 42 occurred in Clapham, 18 in
Putney, 43 in Streatham, 13 in Tooting, and 13 in Wandsworth.
Table X. 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 243 registered, 201 occurred in Tooting Bec Asylum, 23 in the
Tooting Home, eight in the Middlesex County Asylum, and seven
in other places.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the greatest number of
deaths occurred from diseases of the Nervous System, Tubercular
disease of the Lungs, Old Age, disease of the Respiratory Organs,
Bright's disease, Enteritis, and diseases of the Circulatory System.
In the Tooting Bec Asylum the greatest number of deaths
occurred from Old Age, diseases of the Nervous System, and diseases
of the Respiratory Organs; in the Hostel of God from Tubercular
disease of the Lungs and Cancer; and in the Tooting Home from
Tubercular disease of the Lungs and Old Age.
In the Fever Hospitals 17 deaths occurred from Scarlet Fever,
compared with 10 in 1910, 43 from Diphtheria, compared with 15,
34 from Whooping Cough, seven from Measles, four from diseases
of the Respiratory Organs, three from Tubercular disease, one
from Simple Meningitis, and one from Cerebro-Spinal Fever.