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Croydon 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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TABLE III— continued

No.CAUSE.LOCALITIES.Institution & Street Deaths which could not be distributed.Total Institution Deaths distributed and not distributed.Inquest Cases.Total all Ages.Males all Ages.Females all Ages.0-1.1-2.2-5.5-15.15-25.25-45.45-65.55 and upwards.
West.North.Central.East.South.South Norwood.Upper Norwood.Thornton Heath.
172Injury by fall...3.........1...1...35514..................14
173Injury in mines and quarries..................................................................
174Injury by machines..................................................................
175Injury by other crushing (vehicles, railways, landslides, &c.)41212......1...8(6)111192...1...31222
176Injury by animals..................................................................
177Starvation..................................................................
178Excessive cold..................................................................
179Effects of heat..................................................................
180Lightning..................................................................
181Electricity (lightning excepted)..................................................................
182Homicide by firearms..................................................................
183Homicide by cutting or piercing instruments...................................................................
184Homicide by other means..................................................................
185Fractures (cause not specified)..................................................................
186Other violence......2..................11211......1......1......
XIV.—III-Defined Causes.
187Dropsy..................................................................
188(A) Syncope (aged 1 year and under 70)2.........1............1...321...............21...
188(B) Sudden death (not otherwise defined)..................................................................
189(A) Heart failure (aged 1 year and under 70)312.....................16...6...............231
189(B.C.D.E.) Other ill-defined causes (B) Atrophy, debility, marasmus (aged 1 year and under 70)1........................1 (2)...11......1..................
(C' Teething..................................................................
(D) Pyrexia.........1.....................1...1.....................1
(E) Other ill defined deaths.........12...............23122...............1...
189(F) Cause not specified1...1......2...1...435412.........12......
Totals45234921522425733012216817619 (299)17921341031110327544569983260509808

The total Institution Deaths include those of strangers occurring within the Borough. Deaths of such strangers occurring at the Workhouse, Workhouse
Infirmary, Borough Hospital, General Hospital, Purley Cottage Hospital, Norwood Cottage Hospital, and 99, Central Hill (Servants'
Reformatory), are excluded from all other columns of the Table. The numbers so excluded are in brackets.