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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Mortuaries.
The Mortuaries in Clapham, Streatham and Wandsworth
have been visited several times during the year, and I am able
to report that the Bye-laws and Regulations have been carried
out in a satisfactory manner.
In Clapham, eight bodies were removed to the Mortuary,
in Streatham 17, and in Wandsworth 156—of which 50 were
from Wandsworth, 31 from Putney, 35 from Tooting, 40 from
Battersea—a total of 181.
Amount of Poor Law Relief.
The Clerk to the Board of Guardians has kindly given me
the following information with reference to the above for the
year ended 31st December, 1921:—
(1) No. of admissions to the Poor Law Institutions 2,592
(2) No. of medical orders given 1,346
(3) Average No. of persons in receipt of outdoor relief 4,001
(4) Amount of outdoor relief given £62,147
The total number of deaths in Poor Law Institutions was
707, or 19.9 per cent. of the total deaths. Of these, only five
deaths occurred in a Poor Law Institution in the Borough, and
702 outside the Borough.
The extent to which Hospital and other forms of Gratuitous
Medical Relief are utilised.
This can at present only be given as far as the number of
deaths is concerned, as this Department has no means of ascertaining
the number of cases from the Borough treated by such
institutions.
The following Table shows the various institutions in which
deaths occurred during the year, and the number of deaths in
each.