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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 1905
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905
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The largest number of bodies received during any one day
of the year was on the 20th November, when six bodies were
admitted.
Inquests were held in 236 cases, and verdicts were returned as follows:—
| Natural Causes | ... | 129 |
| Open Verdict— | ||
| Found dead | 4 | |
| Found drowned | 8 | |
| - | 12 | |
| Accidental— | ||
| Falls, &c. | 34 | |
| Suffocation in bed with parents | 7 | |
| Suffocation otherwise | 6 | |
| Burns and scalds | 7 | |
| Poisoning | 3 | |
| Run over in streets and on railway | 6 | |
| Drowning | 4 | |
| Other injuries, &c. | 7 | |
| - | 74 | |
| Suicide— | ||
| Cut throat | 6 | |
| Drowning | 2 | |
| Poisoning | 7 | |
| On railway | 1 | |
| Shooting | 2 | |
| Severed artery | 1 | |
| — | 19 | |
| Homicide— | ||
| Suffocation | ... | 2 |
| Total | ... | 236 |
Ambulances.
The Council has for some years provided a wheeled handambulance
at each of the chalets in Battersea Park Road,
Queen's Road (2), York Road and Lavender Hill, and one is
stationed at the corner of Nightingale Lane and Bolingbroke