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Wandsworth 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table IX. shows the number of deaths in Public Institutions
in the Borough of persons belonging thereto, arranged according
to cause of death, sex, age and Institution in which the death
occurred.
The total number of deaths was 191, 107 of males and 84 of
females, compared with 181 in 1911, 159 in 1910, and 181 in 1909.
39 of the deaths occurred in the Fever Hospital, compared
with 48 in 1911; 67 in Tooting Home compared with 53, six in
the Hostel of God, compared with three; six in the Workhouse,
compared with four ; seven in the Tooting Bee Asylum, compared
with nine ; two in the Royal Hospital for Incurables; 11 in Putney
Hospital ; and 53 in other places compared with 60.
These deaths are allocated to their proper sub-districts in
Table XV.
The number of deaths in Table VIII., viz,:—767, and that in
Table IX., viz.:—191, make up the total of 958, the total number
of deaths in Public Institutions and other places in the Borough
as shown in the last columns of Tables XV., and XVIII., and in
column eight of Table XVI.