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18 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The uncorrected death-rate for the Borough was 10.04 per
1,000, compared with 978 in 1912, 11.02 in 1911, and 8.16 in 1910.
The average uncorrected rate for the decennium 1903-1912 was
11.59 or 1.55 above the rate for the year 1913.
In the sub-districts these rates were as follows :-8.72 in
Clapham, 8.82 in Putney, 7.88 in Streatham, 21.86 in Tooting,
and 8.80 in Wandsworth.
The reason for the high rate in Tooting is that in that subdistrict
there are a number of Public Institutions, as the Tooting
Bec 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 53 weeks, corrected for
both internal and external Institutions and other places was 3,588,
compared with 3,291 in 1912, 3,776 in 1911, 3,105 in 1910, and
3,884, the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
During the year 863 deaths occurred in Public Institutions
and 171 in other places in the Borough. Of the total of 1,034
deaths, 822 were of persons not belonging and 212 of persons
belonging to the Borough.