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Wandsworth 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table VI. gives a comparative statement of the birth and death.rates in the Borough for the past 10 years, together with the same rates for London and England and Wales.
TABLE VI.
| Birth.rates. | Death.rates. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wandsworth. | London. | England and Wales. | Wandsworth. | London. | England and Wales. | |
| 1916 | 20.09 | 21.5 | 20.9 | 11.80 | 14.7 | 14.4 |
| 1917 | 14.72 | 17.9 | 17.8 | 12.69 | 15.7 | 14.4 |
| 1918 | 14.29 | 16.1 | 17.7 | 15.07 | 18.9 | 17.6 |
| 1919 | 16.40 | 18.3 | 18.5 | 11.31 | 13.4 | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 21.03 | 26.3 | 25.4 | 10.36 | 12.4 | 12.4 |
| 1921 | 18.80 | 22.3 | 22.4 | 10.83 | 12.4 | 12.1 |
| 1922 | 16.68 | 21.0 | 20.6 | 11.24 | 13.4 | 12.9 |
| 1923 | 16.20 | 20.2 | 19.7 | 10.09 | 11.2 | 11.6 |
| 1924 | 14.57 | 18.7 | 18.8 | 11.03 | 12.1 | 12.2 |
| 1925 | 14.17 | 18.9 | 18.3 | 10.32 | 11.7 | 12.2 |
| Average 10 years | 16.69 | 20.1 | 20.0 | 11.47 | 13.5 | 13.3 |
| 1920 | 14.12 | 17.1 | 17.8 | 10.37 | 11.6 | 11.6 |
The total number of deaths which occurred in Institutions,
etc., inside the Borough was 1,246, but 1,030 of these persons
did not belong to the Borough.
A total of 1,699 persons belonging to the Borough died in
Institutions, 216 occurring in Institutions within the Borough
and 1,483 in Institutions outside the Borough.