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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Of the deaths in other places 34 occurred in Clapham, 24 in
Putney, 40 in Streatham, nine in Tooting, and 15 in Wandsworth.
Table VIII. shows the deaths in Public Institutions in the
Borough of persons not belonging thereto, arranged as to ages,
causes of death, and Institution in which the death occurred.
The greatest number of deaths was due to Old Age, and of
the 269 registered, 241 occurred in Tooting Bee Asylum, six in the
Tooting Home, 14 in the Middlesex County Asylum, and four
in other places.
In the Middlesex County Asylum the greatest number of
deaths occurred from diseases of the Nervous System, Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, Old Age, disease of the Respiratory Organs, Bright's
disease, and diseases of the Circulatory System.
In the Tooting Bee Asylum the greatest number of deaths
occurred from Old Age, diseases of the Nervous System, and diseases
of the Respiratory Organs; in the Hostel of God from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis and Cancer; and in the Tooting Home from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis.
In the Fever Hospital 17 deaths occurred from Scarlet Fever,
compared with 17 in 1911; 34 from Diphtheria, compared with 43;
26 from Whooping Cough, 25 from Measles, and six from other
diseases.