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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
There has again been a marked increase in the number of
deaths in Institutions, and to show that the increase has been
going on for some years, the following Table has been prepared.
The comparative percentages for London are also shown,
and it will be noted that in the 20 years 1890-1909 these increased
in London from 24.0 to 42.0), with an average of 32.51, and in
Wandsworth from I4.6 to 30.5, with an average of 20.21.
In this Borough the percentage is lower than for the whole
of London, and this is what might be expected in consequence of
the social condition of the population, but in spite of this, it is rather
startling to find that nearly 30 per cent, of the total deaths occurred
in Institutions, and that for the year 1910 14.5 per cent, occurred
in Workhouses and Workhouse Infirmaries.
Compared with the 20 years' average, the greatest increase
has occurred among the deaths in General and Special Hospitals,
etc., while the rate in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals
is slightly lower.