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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 191
Compared with the average of the last 20 years there has been
a marked increase in the number of deaths in Institutions, and to
show 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 twenty years 1892-1911 these increased
in London from 25.4 to 43.5 with an average of 33.76, and in
Wandsworth from 15.0 to 30.9 with an average of 21.84.
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 32.8 per cent, of the total deaths occurred
in Institutions, and that for the year 1912, 15.5, 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.