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9
Report of the Medical Officer of Health
The reason for the high rate in Tooting is that in that subdistrict
there are a number of Public Institutions, as the Tooting
Bee Asylum and the Tooting Home, where persons from other
parts of London are received and among whom the mortality is
very great.
To ascertain the corrected death-rate corrections must be made
to the above by the addition of the deaths in Out-lying Institutions
and other places of persons belonging to the Borough, and the
subtraction of all deaths in Public Institutions and other places in
the Borough of persons not belonging thereto, whose domiciles
were in other parts of London.
The deaths occurring in other parts of England and Wales
are also included, as these are now received from the Registrar
General.
The total number of deaths for the 52 weeks, corrected for
both internal and external Institutions and other places was 3,291,
compared with 3,776 in 1911, 3,105 in 1910, 3,520 in 1909, and 3,903,
the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
During the year 836 deaths occurred in Public Institutions
and 122 in other places in the Borough. Of the total of 958 deaths,
767 were of persons not belonging and 191 of persons belonging to
the Borough.
Table VII. shows the total number of Institution deaths
arranged according to sub-districts and Institutions in which they
occurred, Table VIII. the deaths of persons not belonging to the
Borough, and Table IX. of persons belonging thereto arranged
according to causes of death, sex and age, and Institution in which
the death occurred.