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Vital Statistics. 9
Name of Institution. No. of
Deaths.
Toor Law Hospitals and
Infirmaries :—
Wandsworth Union Hospitals 944
Cane Hill Mental Hospital C
Lambeth Union Hospital 6
Long Grove Mental Hospital 11
West Park Mental Hospital 17
Other Mental Hospitals 20
Other Poor Law Institutions 18
Other Hospitals :—
Belgrave Hospital 9
Bolingbroke Hospital 39
Cancer Hospital 6
Charing Cross Hospital 10
Colindale Hospital 16
Guy's Hospital 9
Infants Hospital 10
King's College Hospital 15
National Hospital 8
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 9
St. Columba's Hospital 9
Name of Institution. No. of
Deaths.
Other Hospitals— contd.:—
St. George's Hospital 18
St. Thomas's Hospital 44
South Western Hospital 7
University College Hospital 7
Victoria Hospital 20
West London Hospital 12
Westminster Hospital 18
Other Institutions, Etc.:—
Other Institutions 113
Other Places not Public Institutions
90
On Railway 3
On Street 21
River Thames 7
Private Nursing Homes 60
1,594
Institutions, etc., inside the
Borough 242
1,836
Infantile Mortality.
The total number of deaths under one year was 230:—53
in Clapham, 21 in Putney, 31 in Balham, 34 in Streatham,
19 in Tooting and 72 in Wandsworth. As the number of births
was 4,616, the Infantile Mortality rate was 49 per 1,000 births,
compared with 51 last year. The decrease in the rate is due
to the decrease in the number of deaths from Premature Birth.
The infantile mortality rate of 49 is the lowest which has
ever been recorded in this Borough and is the first time the rate
has been below 50 per 1,000 births. The rate compares with
67 for the whole of London and is only bettered by one of the
small London Boroughs which has a rate of 48.
For the 10 years ending 1918 the average infantile mortality
rate was 87, while for the 10 years ending 1928 the average rate
was 62. This fall represents an annual saving of over 100 infant
lives.
The number of deaths among legitimate infants was 211
to 4,616 births—a mortality of 47 per 1,000 births, while the