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Wandsworth 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The following Table shows the number of Inquests held on
residents in the Borough who died outside the Borough. The large
number in which a verdict of accidental death was returned is due to
the fact that cases of accident are often removed from this Borough to
a general hospital where the Inquest is held if the case proves fatal.

Table: TABLE XLIII.

TABLE XLIII.

INQUESTS.Sub-Districts.
Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole Borough.
Deaths from Natural Causes:—2121713
Accidental:—
Falls326...415
Burns2...2...15
Crushed by railway engine......2...13
Blood poisoning from wounds..................
caused by machinery while..................
at work............22
Knocked down by bicycles1...1......2
,, ,, motors1............2
Fracture of left thigh bone......1......2
Poisoning by carbolic acid1............1
,, chloroform1............1
Suffocation............11
Crushed by a fall of earth when at..................
work............11
Crushed by stone when at work ...1............1
Drowning1............1
Tetanus in consequence of wound......1......1
Injury to throat caused by having..................
swallowed a plate with false..................
teeth......1......1
Suicidal:—
Drowning......2...13
Poisoning by hydrochloric acid ............112
,, coal gas......1......1
Open Verdicts:—
Found drowned............22
„ dead............11
Totals1341922361