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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Compared with 1914 there has been an increase of 617 deaths,
and of 307 compared with the decennial average corrected for
increase of population.
The uncorrected death-rate for the Borough was 11.72 per
1,000, compared with 10-02 in 1914, 10.04 in 1913. and 9.78 in 1912.
The average uncorrected rate for the decennium 1905-1914
was 11.05 or -68 below the rate for the year 1915.
In the sub-districts these rates were as follows:—9.57 in
Clapham, 10.25 in Putney, 8.86 in Streatham, 25.33 in Tooting, and
11.05 in Wandsworth.
The reason for the high rate in Tooting is that in that subdistrict
there are a number of Public Institutions where persons
from other parts of London are received and among whom the
mortality is very great.
The total number of deaths for the 52 weeks, corrected for both
internal and external Institutions and other places was 4,189,
c ompared with 3,664 in 1914, 3,588 in 1913, and 3,291 in 1912, and
3,866 the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
During the year 1,069 deaths occurred in Public Institutions
and 156 in other places in the Borough. Of the total of 1,225
deaths, 1,012 were of persons not belonging and 213 of persons
belonging to the Borough.
Table VII. shows the total number of Institution deaths
arranged according to sub-districts and Institutions in which they
occurred, Table VIII. the deaths of persons not belonging to the
Borough, and Table IX. the deaths of persons belonging thereto
arranged according to causes of death, sex and age, and Institution
in which the death occurred.