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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
Poplar 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Analysis of the 92 deaths classified to Suicide and other deaths from Violence (International Short List Headings Nos. 29 and 30):—
| Suicide | 11 |
| Food poisoning | — |
| Poisoning by venomous animals | 1 |
| Other acute accidental poisonings (not by gas) | — |
| Conflagration | — |
| Accidental burns (conflagrations excepted) | 2 |
| Accidental mechanical suffocation | — |
| Accidental absorption of irrespirable or poisonous gas | — |
| Accidental drowning | 7 |
| Accidental injury: | |
| By firearms | — |
| By cutting or piercing instruments | — |
| By fall | 32 |
| In mining and quarrying | — |
| By machinery | 3 |
| By other forms of crushing: | |
| Road vehicles | 25 |
| Railways | 1 |
| Other crushing accidents | 4 |
| Injury by animals (poisoning by venomous animals excepted) | – |
| Wounds of war | 2 |
| Execution of civilians by belligerent armies | — |
| Hunger or thirst | — |
| Excessive cold | — |
| Excessive heat | — |
| Lightning | — |
| Electricity (lightning excepted) | — |
| Homicide: | |
| By firearms | — |
| By cutting or piercing instruments | — |
| By other means | — |
| Infanticide | — |
| Fracture (cause not specified) | — |
| Other and unstated forms of accidental violence | 3 |
| Violent deaths of unstated nature (i.e., accidental, | |
| suicidal, etc.) and cause | 1 |
| 92 |
For death rates from violence, and the percentage of inquest cases to total
deaths, see Table IV.