London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1902
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1902
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Inquests. Inquests were held in 224 cases, and verdicts were returned as follows :—
| Natural Causes | 129 |
| Open Verdict | |
| Found dead | 7 |
| Found drowned, &c. | 6 |
| 13 | |
| Accidental | |
| Misadventure | 4 |
| Suffocation in bed with parents | 9 |
| Falls, &c. | 9 |
| Run over in streets and on railway | 8 |
| Burns and scalds | 11 |
| Poisoning | 2 |
| Asphyxia | 8 |
| Want of attention at birth | 2 |
| Improper feeding | 2 |
| Other injuries, &c. | 9 |
| 64 | |
| Suicide— | |
| Gun Shot | I |
| Poisoning | 3 |
| Cut throat | 3 |
| Hanging | 6 |
| Drowning | 1 |
| 14 | |
| Homicide | |
| Suffocation | 2 |
| Parental neglect | 1 |
| Cut throat | 1 |
| 4 | |
| 224 | |
The deaths from suffocation in bed with parents were 9
in number, compared with 17 in 1901. The number of deaths
in each year since 1896 is shown in the following table, together
with the number of deaths occurring on each day of the week.
The day refers to the morning on which the death of the child
was discovered.