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Wandsworth 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The corrected number of deaths, after adding the deaths of
persons belonging to the Borough, and subtracting those of
persons dying in the Borough and not belonging thereto, was
3,552, 1,723 of males, and 1,829 of females.
The corrected death-rate for the year was 10.36, compared
with 11.31 in 1919.
The death-rate for the whole of London for the year was
12.4 per 1,000, compared with 13.4 in 1919.
Table IX. shows the total number of deaths and the deathrates
for each sub-district and for the whole Borough, corrected
and uncorrected for deaths in Public Institutions.
| Sub-Districts. | Corrected Deaths. | Uncorrected Deaths. | Corrected Death-rate. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | Males. | Females. | Total. | ||
| Clapham | 346 | 359 | 705 | 237 | 320 | 557 | 10.56 |
| Putney | 147 | 171 | 318 | 125 | 142 | 267 | 10.95 |
| Streatham | 557 | 607 | 1164 | 358 | 454 | 812 | 10.09 |
| Tooting | 185 | 154 | 339 | 316 | 327 | 643 | 8.97 |
| Wandsworth | 488 | 538 | 1026 | 366 | 435 | 801 | 10.15 |
| Whole Borough | 1723 | 1829 | 3552 | 1402 | 1678 | 3080 | 10.36 |
The death-rate in England and Wales in 1920 was 12.4 per
1,000; in the 96 great Towns 12.5; and in the 148 smaller
Towns 11.3.
The rates in all the sub-districts were much lower than in
1919.
There are only six towns in England and Wales with a
greater population than the Borough of Wandsworth—viz., Bristol,
Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield—
and in them the mortality and the infantile mortality for the year
1920 were, respectively : 12.14 and 70, 13.1 and 83, 16.4 and
113, 13.0 and 97, 14.7 and 110, and 13.5 and 103.