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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
A study of the meteorological reports shows that in July,
August and September the air temperature was above the 65 years'
average on 23 days only out of 92, compared with 19 days in 1912
and 76 days in 1911, while the rainfall was much below the average,
rain falling on 36 days compared with 47 days in 1912, 22 days in
19H, and 37 in 1910.
INFECTIVE DISEASES.
The next Table shows the number of deaths from these diseases
during the year and for the 10 previous years. This Table is
corrected for Institutions, as a large number of deaths registered
in the Borough occurred in the Grove Fever Hospital and belong
to other Metropolitan Boroughs. The number above or below the
corrected decennial average is also shown.

The total number of deaths from these diseases was 797, 137 in
Clapham, 62 in Putney, 190 in Streatham, 118 in Tooting, and
290 in Wandsworth, an increase of 112 compared with 1912,but a
decrease of 137 compared with the corrected decennial average.