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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In the separate sub-districts of the Borough the corrected
death-rate was 11.98 in Streatham, 12.34 in Putney, 12.53 in
Clapham, 12.65 in Tooting and 13.50 in Wandsworth.
The rates in all the sub-districts were higher than in 1914, and
this increase was due to causes which will be commented on in
another part of this Report.
Table XIII. shows the death-rate in the Borough, in the five
sub-districts, and in England and Wales for the year, as well as the
rates for the previous 10 years, compared with the decennial average.
During the previous decennium the lowest mortality in the
Borough and in London was in 1910, while it was lowest in England
and Wales in the year 1912. The rate in 1915, although higher
than in 1910, 1912, 1913 and 1914, is lower than the average of the
previous 10 years in Tooting, and slightly higher in the other subdistricts.
Compared with London and with England and Wales
the Borough rate is considerably lower.