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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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INQUESTS AND DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE.
The number of inquests registered was 280. From this total must
be deducted 56 of non-residents, and 36 added of residents who died
outside the Borough, the nett total being 260.
Analysis of the 97 deaths classified to Suicide and other deaths from Violence (International Short List Headings Nos. 29 and 30):-
| Suicide | 18 |
| Food poisoning | – |
| Poisoning by venomous animals | – |
| Other acute accidental poisonings (not by gas) | 1 |
| Conflagration | – |
| Accidental burns (conflagrations excepted) | 2 |
| Accidental mechanical suffocation | 4 |
| Accidental absorption of irrespirable or poisonous gas | – |
| Accidental drowning | 12 |
| Accidental injury: | |
| By firearms | – |
| By cutting or piercing instruments | – |
| By fall | 25 |
| In mining and quarrying | – |
| By machinery | 2 |
| By other forms of crashing: | |
| Road vehicles | 20 |
| Railways | 1 |
| Other crushing accidents | 1 |
| 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 | 2 |
| Lightning | – |