Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Causes of death in Inquest cases—continued—
Senile Decay | 6 | |
Still Born | 6 | |
Spasm of Glottis | 2 | |
Tumour of the Brain | 2 | |
Ulcer of the Stomach | 2 | |
Want of Attention at Birth | 4 | |
Accidental Deaths— | ||
Crushed by Machinery | 2 | |
Burns | 4 | |
Drowned | 4 | |
Death while under Chloroform | 2 | |
Exhaustion from Operation | 1 | |
Falls | 37 | |
Ptomaine Poisoning | 2 | |
Run over in the Street | 4 | |
Scalds | 3 | |
Septiœemia | 1 | |
Suffocation in Bed | 21 | |
„ while in a Fit | 2 | |
Accelerated by Exposure | 1 | |
Chronic Alcoholism | 6 | |
Death due to Forcible Feeding | 1 | |
Manslaughter | 1 | |
Suicides— | ||
Fall from Window | 1 | |
Poisoning | 2 | |
Hanging | 2 | |
Cut Throat | 2 | 7 |
Total | ... | 277 |
Bodies recovered under Public Health (London) Act—
Diphtheria | 3 |
Measles | 1 |
Total | 4 |