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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
Bethnal Green 1909
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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The following list shews the organs and parts of the body chiefly affected by malignant disease:—
| Tongue and Mouth | 10 |
| Larynx and Œsophagus | 12 |
| Stomach Liver and Pancreas | 33 |
| Intestines | 12 |
| Rectum | 9 |
| Female Organs of Generation | 17 |
| Female Breast | 9 |
| Prostate and Male Bladder | 6 |
INQUESTS.
The Coroner held 275 inquests at the Court in Church
Row; eighty of these were on persons who had died as
the result of accidents, in sixteen a verdict of suicide
was returned and in three of homicide.
SUICIDES.
Five men and one woman hanged themselves. One
man and one woman cut their throats. Three men and
one woman took poison. Two men drowned themselves.
A boy of sixteen had his head cut off on the
railway near Devonshire Street Bridge, and another
young fellow threw himself out of window.
HOMICIDE.
Three verdicts of Manslaughter were returned:—A
newly born infant was found in Regent's Canal, it had
bleeding on the brain, the result of injury. A charwoman
who was assaulted died from injuries to the
head. A man who suffered from heart disease died
suddenly; he was wounded in the lace by another man
in self defence.