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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 1906

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 113

Table: TABLE LIV.

TABLE LIV.

INQUESTS.Sub-Districts.
Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole Boro'.
Deaths from Natural Causes:—1613162957131
Accidental:—
Falls1436721
Suffocated in bed with parents...13......4
Suffocation121...26
Scalds......2...13
Drowning............22
Run over by train...11......2
,, ,, brewer's dray1............1
Knocked down by tram car1............1
,, off motor bicycle...1.........1
Thrown from cart............11
Crushed by motor car............11
Kicked by horse............11
Poisoning by hydrochloric acid...1.........1
„ „ strychnine............11
Fall from window...............1
„ into a vat of wash............11
Blood poisoning............11
Suicidal:—
Hanging1...3127
Gunshot wounds12......25
Cut throat...21......3
Poisoning by oxalic acid.........112
„ spirits of salts.........1...1
„ coal gas............11
Drowning...1.........1
Execution............11
Open Verdicts:—
Found drowned...5......27
,, dead121116
Suffocation1............1
Totals2435323985215

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41 of the Inquests were held on persons not belonging to the
Borough who died in the Borough. Seven of these were on persons
who died in Tooting Bec Asylum, five in the Prison, four in