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The public institutions recognized within the
district as receiving sick and infirm persons from
outside are the Cottage Hospital and the Isolation
Hospital; and the Institutions outside receivingsick
and infirm persons from this district are the
Union Workhouse and the County Lunatic Asylum
at Brookwood.
The population at the Census in 1901 was
15,017, this is now officially estimated to be 15,386
at the middle of 1902.
Subject to the conditions stated above the nett
deaths at all ages for the year were 169, which
gives a death rate of 10.9 per thousand of the
population, a result that compares very favourably
with other localities of the same character as this.
It is the more so taking into consideration the
large amount of building at Tolworth, together
with the proportionate increase of working class
population, and also taking in conjunction with
this the notification of infectious diseases table ; it
shows that the sanitation of the district and the
work of the sanitary officials under the direction
of the Sanitary Committee and the Council bears
good fruit and contributes largely to the satisfactory
result obtained. Lives are not only saved,
but better health and enjoyment of life is attained
by healthy homes and surroundings, and if the
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