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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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104 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In 145 or 64.4 per cent. of the total number of Inquests a
verdict of death from natural causes was returned, in 53 or
percent. from accidental causes, in 16 or 7.1 from suicidal causes,
and in 8 or 3.5 per cent. open verdicts were returned.
Three executions were carried out at the Wandsworth Prison
during the year 1902, compared with one in 1901.
INQUEST | PARISHES | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clapham | Putney | Streatham | Tooting | Wandsworth | Total | |
Deaths from Natural Causes:— | 27 | 19 | 17 | 9 | 73 | 145 |
Suffocation in bed with parents | 2 | 2 | 2 | .. | 5 | 11 |
Suffocation | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | |
Drowning | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 |
Burns | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | 7 | |
Falls | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
Poisoning by carbolic acid | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
,, opium | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Run over in street | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |
„ on railway | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Poisoning by coal gas | .. | .... | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
„ eating poisonous root | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Exposure | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Poisoning by arsenic | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
„ oxalic acid | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
,, embrocation | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
„ cyanide of potassium | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Gunshot wound | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Hanging | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Cut throat | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
Drowning | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 |
.. | ||||||
Found dead | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Drowning | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 |
Suffocation | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | 4 |
.. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | |
34 | 33 | 11 | 107 |