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132 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths shown in Table LXV., viz.:—361,
does not agree with the number in the Table of deaths on page 26.
The explanation of this difference is as follows -281 of the
361 deaths correspond with the deaths registered, while of the
80 remaining, 33 were inmates of Tooting Bec Asylum, seven of
the Workhouse, one was homeless, and these died outside the
Borough and were consequently not registered here. In addition
35 cases did not die from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, although
notified as such.
Of the 303 deaths which are included in Table XV., 20
were not notified cases, and of these 11 died in Asylums and four
at private residences outside the Borough, while five died at
private addresses within the Borough.
In each of the five cases inquiries were made from the medical
attendant and satisfactory explanations were received as to the
reason for non-notification.
It is satisfactory to observe that the Regulations as to notifications
have been so well carried out by medical practitioners
in the first year of their being in force.
19 cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis were notified by the
School Medical Inspectors of the Education Department of the
London County Council, these cases having been discovered in
the examination of children at school.
Of the two notified in Clapham one became Poor Law, in
Putney one became Poor Law, in Streatham one became Poor Law
and one was previously notified from the Victoria Park Hospital,
in Tooting one became Poor Law and one was previously notified
by a private medical practitioner, and in Wandsworth one became
Poor Law and two were notified twice by the School Medical
Inspector.
Seven of the cases were not notified by other practitioners,
but all the cases were visited to ascertain if they were under medical
treatment at home.