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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Compared with the average of the last 20 years there has beer.!
a marked increase in the number of deaths in Institutions, and toshow
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 1891-1910 these increased
in London from 25.8 to 43.4 with an average of 33.48, and in
Wandsworth from 14.9 to 31.2, with an average of 21-07.
.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 30 per cent. of the total deaths occurred
in Institutions, and that for the year 1911 12.2 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 rates in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals,
both for the Borough and for London, are much higher owing to
the reception of Measles and Whooping Cough into these Hospitals.