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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
Tottenham 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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| Suicides :•— | Burns | 1 | |
| Poisoning | 5 | Scalds | 1 |
| Drowning | 4 | Knocked down by Tramcar. . | 1 |
| Gas Poisoning | 3 | Knocked down by Pantechnicon | 1 |
| Hanging | 2 | ||
| Cut Throat | 1 | Knocked down by Horsed Van Drowning | 1 |
| Fall from Roof | 1 | ||
| Knocked down by Motor | Fall from Motor Cycle | 1 | |
| Vehicle | 9 | Fall from Pedal Cycle | 1 |
| Suffocation | 3 | Fall downstairs | 1 |
| Death under Anaesthetic | 3 | Gas Poisoning | 1 |
(a) POOR LAW RELIEF, (b) NORTH MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL
The following information has been kindly supplied by the Clerk of
the Guardians:—
Out-Door Relief.
Unemployed: Ordinary:
No. of cases, Amount, No. of cases, Amount,
2,999 £37,943 4s. 11d. 2,056 £56,077 11s 5d.
North Middlesex Hospital.
No. of cases admitted from Tottenham during 1926 2,701
No. of days In-Maintenance of these patients during 1926 101,867
THE CARE OF THE AGED.
Great difficulty is experienced occasionally in determining the proper
procedure to adopt in the case of old people, living alone and unfit by
reason of decrepitude to look after themselves or their homes. They
resent the suggestion that they should go into the "Institution"; their
relatives are none too eager to accept responsibility for the proper care
of the old people; their neighbours' intervention is resented, or they (the
neighbours) have sufficiently weighty responsibilities without accepting
others.
Circumstances of the kind indicated come to the notice of the department
with sufficient frequency to warrant sympathetic consideration being
given to the problem, with a view of a satisfactory solution being found.