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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
Wandsworth 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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Parish of Streatham
the deaths occurring in outlying institutions. 56 or 52.8
per cent. in general and special hospitals; 28 or 26.4 per
cent. in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals, and
3 or 2.9 per cent. elsewhere.
Seven Coroner's inquests were held in respect of
institution deaths with the following verdicts:—
Natural Causes:— Heart Disease (male).
Heart Disease (male).
Violence:—Accidental Fall (male).
Fall (male).
Scalds (female).
Fall (male).
Injury to knee (male).
The following Table, which indicates the nature of
the cause of death, the age and sex of the deceased, and
the character of the institution in which death occurred,
includes all parishioners dying in outlying general
and special hospitals within the Metropolis and the
Workhouse Infirmary.