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Wandsworth 1915

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of deaths shown on Table IX. is 213, 124 of
males and 89 of females, compared with 194 in 1914, 212 in 1913,.
and 191 in 1912.
71 of the deaths occurred in the Fever Hospital, compared
with 51 in 1914. 11 in Tooting Home, compared with 30; nine in
the Hostel of God, compared with 14; six in the Workhouse, compared
with three; eight in the Tooting Bee Asylum, compared with
five; none in the Royal Hospital for Incurables, compared with
three; 17 in Putney Hospital compared with 16, three in the
Fountain Temporary Asylum; seven in the Middlesex Asylum;
13 in the 3rd London General Hospital; and 65 in other places
compared with 72.
These deaths are allocated to their proper sub-districts in
Table XIV.
The number of deaths in Table VIII., viz.:—1,012, and that in
Table IX., viz.:—213, make up the total of 1,225, 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.