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Shoreditch 1896

Annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1896

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VII.—VIOLENT DEATHS, &c.
(1) Accident or Negligence.
By Falls...313245152...3458926
„ Railways.......... .....1.....................11
„ Horses and Vehicles......21...11......2......12817
„ Wounds—Gunshot, Cut, and Stab................................................
In Building operations...................................................
„ Conflagrations...................................................
By Burns and Scalds...41............21......423...38
„ Poison...................................................
„ Drowning......2...1...1...............121...4
„ Suffocation6...2...1..................613289
„ Suffocation (in bed)291...........................3031071030
„ Negligence at Birth3..............................3...123
Otherwise......1......12...............1...124
(2) Homicide.
Murder................................................
Manslaughter...................................................
(3) Suicide.
Wounds—Gunshot, Cut, Stab................................................
Poison............21...1............11114
Drowning............11......1.........1......34
Hanging.........1...1..................1......12
Otherwise...............1...........................11
(4) Execution.
Hanging...................................................
VIII.—DEATHS FROM ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES.
Marasmus645...........................69621241869
Debility, Atrophy, Inanition41..............................4141471641
Mortification..................3133......3...2510
Dropsy.........1.................................11
Hæmorrhage1............11...1......1...2...14
Malignant Disease..................315.........34...29
Tumour.........1...1..................1...1...2
Abscess11...... |.....................2...2......2
Other causes not specified4211......2242...64221018
Total78650210210213321222711722019724128838059155210992622