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Deptford 1907
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1907
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MORTUARY AND CORONER'S COURT.
The building was not sufficiently advanced to allow of it being
opened before the close of the year.
During the year 80 bodies were received into the Mortuary. Register of Bodies Received into the Mortuary. During the year ending December 28th, 1907.
| Total. | Males. | Females. | Post Mortems. | Inquests. | Under one year of age. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 41 | 39 | 53 | 70 | 13 | ||||||
| Bodies Belonging to | |||||||||||
| Borough of Deptford | Borough of Greenwich. | Borough of Lewisham. | Borough of Woolwich. | Borough of Bermondsey | Borough of Camber well. | Wimbledon. | Redhill. | New York, u.S.A. | |||
| 52 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | i | |||
INQUESTS.
The number of inquests held on inhabitants of Deptford during
the year was 113, of which 70 were held in the borough, the remaining
•13 being on residents of Deptford who died in public institutions
outside the borough.
The following table gives the result of the inquests held during the year:—
| Natural Causes | 60 |
| Accidents | 30 |
| Suffocation | 9 |
| Suicides | |
| Drowning | 2 |
| Manslaughter | 1 |
| 113 |