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 Woolwich]
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Average, 1901 5 | 1906. | |
---|---|---|
Woolwich | 1.69 | 1.93 |
Plumstead | 1.53 | 1.37 |
Eltham | 0.88 | 0.83 |
The Borough | 1.51 | 1.49 |
25. Inquests:—There were 121 inquests compared with 145,
145, 154, 154, 160, and 141, in the 6 preceding years.
The following table gives particulars as to the cause of death:—
1. Natural causes | 63 |
2. Accidental causes:— | |
Burns | 5 |
Drowning | 6 |
Falls | 2 |
Fractures | 10 |
Run over | 3 |
Suffocation, overlaying | 4 |
Other accidental causes | 13 |
3. Homicidal causes:— | — 43 |
Suicide | 13 |
Murder and Manslaughter | 2 |
— 15 | |
121 |
The "Natural Causes" were 78 in 1905. The "Accidental
and Homicidal Causes" were 85, 49, and 59 in the three preceding
years, compared with 62 last year. The deaths from suffocation
or overlaying have been 2, 5, 10, 8, 8, 8, respectively in the last
six years; and Homicides 22, 9, 20, 8, 11, and 11 in the same
years.
26. Deaths in Public Institutions. Table 1 shows the actual
number of deaths occurring in Public Institutions in the Borough,
viz. : 293, compared with 278, 272, 261, and 313 in the four
preceding years. Table Ia shows the Institutions inside and
outside the Borough receiving sick and infirm persons belonging
to the Borough, and Table IVa shows the number of deaths from
each disease occurring in Public Institutions. The increased
number of deaths in the Infirmary in the past two years is found