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Repott of the Medical Officer of Health
The corrected population in Table II. is used to calculate
all the rates in this Report.
The total population of the Institutions in the Borough was
in 1911 7,855, but as a large proportion of the inmates of the
Tooting Home and the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital
belong to the Borough, a deduction of 5,202 from the uncorrected
population gives the corrected population, viz.—313,961, compared
with 308,156 in the previous year.
As the complete Census returns have not yet been issued, no
particulars can be given yet as to occupation or overcrowding.
Births.
During the 52 weeks ending the 28th December, 1912, 6,756
births, 3,446 of males and 3,310 of females, were registered, compared
with 6,699 1911, 6,967, in 1910, and 6,985 in 1909.
The total number of births registered in this Borough was
6,580, but 250 births occurred in Institutions outside the Borough
of persons belonging to the Borough, and 74 births in Institutions
in the Borough of persons not belonging to the Borough, making a
corrected total of 6,756.
Of the 250 births which were registered outside the Borough,
87 occurred in Clapham Maternity, 48 in the General Lying-in
Hospital, 24 in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, 12 in St. Thomas's
Hospital, three in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, two in Westminster
Hospital, eight in Poor Law Infirmaries, nine in private nursing
homes, and 57 in other places.
In Table III. 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.