Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Coroner s Court ana Mortuary. Details as to the number of inquests held at the Coroner's Court, and bodies received into the Mortuary during 1928 are set out in the following table:—
Usual Place of Residence. | Total | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Batter- sea. | Wands -worth | Elsewhere. | Residence unknown | ||
Inquest at Coroner's Court ; post-mortem at Mortuary | 35 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 72 |
Inquest at Coroner's Court; post-mortem elsewhere | 44 | 78 | 32 | 1 | 155 |
Inquest at Coroner's Court; no post-mortem | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
Total inquests at Coroner's Court | 89 | 103 | 43 | 6 | 241 |
Post-mortem at Mortuary, inquest elsewhere | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
Post-mortem at Mortuary; no inquest (Coroner's Certificate) | 76 | 17 | 2 | 95 | |
Bodies received for sanitary reasons | 4 | — | — | - | 4 |
Other bodies received on which no inquest held at Mortuary | 2 | 4 | — | — | 6 |
Total bodies received | 173 | 125 | 45 | 6 | 349 |
2nd post mortem : 1st held elsewhere | — | 3 | _ | _ | 3- |
VERDICTS AT INQUESTS HELD— | |||||
12 | 23 | 3 | — | 38 | |
Anaesthesia | 2 | 3 | — | — | 5 |
Asphyxia (Food) | 2 | 1 | — | — | 3 |
Burns and scalds | 10 | 4 | — | — | 14 |
Coal Gas poisoning | 2 | 1 | — | — | 3 |
Diving | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
Fall | 18 | 19 | 17 | — | 54 |
Overlying | 2 | — | — | — | 2 |
Railway and street accidents | 15 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 50 |
Septicaemia following injury | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
Cellulitis following injury | 1 | 3 | — | — | 4 |
Other accidents | 7 | 5 | 1 | — | 13 |
Fall | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
Found drowned | — | — | 2 | _ | 2 |
Septicaemia (unknown origin) | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
Stillborn | 1 | 2 | _ | 1 | 4 |
Want of attention at birth | 1 | _ | _ | 2 | 3 |
Cause unknown | — | — | _ | 1 | 1 |
Cut throat | 4 | 4 | 1 | _ | 9 |
Drowning | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 |
Jump under moving train | 1 | — | 2 | — | 3 |
Hanging | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 |
Poisoning—Coal gas | 6 | 4 | — | — | 10 |
„ Drugs, etc. | 2 | 8 | 1 | — | 11 |
Abortion | — | 1 | 1 | _ | 2 |
Infanticide | — | — | _ | 1 | 1 |
Negligent Driving | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Grand Total | 89 | 103 | 43 | 6 | 241 |