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Wandsworth 1929

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Vital Statistics.
9
The total number of deaths which occurred in Institutions,
etc., inside the Borough was 1,428, but 1,148 of these persons
did not belong to the Borough.
A total of 2,237 persons belonging to the Borough died in
Institutions, 280 occurring in Institutions within the Borough
and 1,957 in Institutions outside the Borough.
The following is a list of the Institutions, etc., outside the
Borough in which deaths of Borough residents occurred :—
Name of Institution. No. of
deaths.
Poor Law Hospitals and
Infirmaries:—
Wandsworth Union Hospitals 1,227
Banstead Mental Hospital 8
Cane Hill Mental Hospital 14
Dartford Heath Mental
Hospital 6
Grove Park Mental Hospital 12
Horton Mental Hospital. 27
Lambeth Union Hospital 8
Long Grove Mental Hospital 8
West Park Mental Hospital 20
Other Mental Hospitals 17
Other Poor Law Institutions 9
Other Hospitals:—
Belgrave Hospital 16
Bolingbroke Hospital 41
Brompton Hospital 15
Cancer Hospital 7
Charing Cross Hospital 6
Colindale Hospital 10
Guy's Hospital 19
Infants' Hospital 7
King's College Hospital 19
Middlesex Hosnital 9
Name of Institution. No. of
Deaths.
Other Hospitals—contd.:—
North Western Hospital 6
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 7
St. Columba's Hospital 7
St. George's Hospital 13
St. Luke's Hospital 6
St. Thomas's Hospital 51
South Western Hospital 12
University College Hospital 8
Victoria Hospital 13
Western Hospital 6
Westminster Hospital 11
Other Institutions, Etc.:—
Other Institutiors 165
Other Places not Public
Institutions 87
On Railway 2
On Street 25
River Thames 4
Private Nursing Homes 29
1,957
Institutions, etc., inside the
Borough 280
2,237
Infantile Mortality.
The total number of deaths under one year was 284:—52
in Clapham, 14 in Putney, 46 in Balham, 39 in Streatham