Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896
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The verdicts returned were:—
Natural causes | 32 |
Accidental death | 8 |
Suffocation | 6 |
Suicide | 4 |
Manslaughter | 1 |
Age of Bodies.
Under Ten years of age, 60. Ten years and upwards, 97.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Food and Drugs and Margarine Acts.
Particulars of legal proceedings will be given by the Clerk to the
Board in his report; and the Public Analyst gives you details of
analyses under the Food and Drugs and Margarine Acts in his report.
REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON
VACCINATION.
After: a prolonged and exhaustive inquiry of more than seven years'
duration the final Report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination
was completed last August (1896), just a century after Jenner's first
vaccination.
The late Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, M.P., died at an early stage of
the inquiry, and was replaced as a member of the Commission by
Mr. Bright (late M.P.), in 1891.
Sir Wm. Savory and Dr. Bristowe died at a later period, and their
places were not filled.
The final Report was signed by the following eleven of the
remaining thirteen Commissioners:—
Lord Herschell.
Sir James Paget.
Sir Charles Dalrymple, M.P.
Sir W. Guyer Hunter, M.D.
Sir E. H. Galsworthy.
Mr. J. S. Dugdale, Q.C.
Professor Michael Foster, M.D.
Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S., F.R.C.S.
Judge Meadows White, Q.C.
Mr. Samuel Whitbread; and
Mr. John A. Bright.