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 1908
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1908
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| Cut throat | 6 | |
| Drowning | 2 | |
| Gun shot | 1 | |
| Hanging and strangulation | 7 | |
| On railway | 2 | |
| Poison | 5 | |
| Other methods | 1 | |
| Homicide— | — | 24 |
| Fractured skull | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 247 | |
Ambulances.
The Council have for some years past provided a wheeled
Ambulance at each of the following six points in the Borough:—
Queen's Road (at Queen's Circus).
Clapham Junction (at junction of Falcon Road and
Lavender Hill).
Bridge Road (at junction of Cambridge Road and Bridge
Road).
York Road (at junction of York Road and Plough Road).
Battersea Park Road (outside Christ Church).
Nightingale Lane (Wandsworth Common end).
These Ambulances are freely accessible to the public. They
are frequently availed of by the police, and have been found most
serviceable for the speedy and humane removal to hospital of
persons meeting with accident or illness in the street. Each
Ambulance is provided with the necessary surgical appliances and
dressings for rendering ''first aid " to the injured.