London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Plumstead 1894

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE VIII.Abstract from Mortuary Register for 1894.

TABLE VIII.

Abstract from Mortuary Register for 1894.

Date.Age.Sex.Inquest or No.Post Mortem or No.Cause of Death.
1894
Jan. 1st40 yearsFemaleYesYes.Failure of heart's action from excessive uterine hemorrhage
„ 15th1 monthMaleYesYesConvulsions
„ 27th34 yearsFemaleNoNo
„ 28th8 weeksFemaleYesYesSuffocation
Feb. 6th49 yearsMaleYesYesFatty degeneration of the heart
„ 13th19 monthsFemaleYesYesEmpyema
April 22nd2 monthsMaleYesYesSuffocated by misadventure
May 7th2 yearsMaleYesYesDiphtheria
„ 30th21 years JustMaleYesCommitted suicide by blowing his head off with a gun whilst temporarily deranged
„ 31stbreathedFemaleYesYesSuffocated by smothering under bed clothes
July 7th39 yearsMaleYesYesCommitted suicide during temporary derangement
„ 16thFemaleYesFatty degeneration of the heart, nervous exhaustion caused by excessive snuff taking and chronic Alcoholism
„ 17th32 yearsMaleYesCommitted suicide during temporary derangement
„ 17th42 yearsMaleYesYesNatural causes
Aug. 1st3 yearsMaleYesAccidental death (killed on the up-line on South Eastern Railway bottom of Bannockbnrn Road)
Sept. 26th23 yearsFemaleYesYesNatural causes
Oct. 10th3 weeksMaleYesYes
Nov. 11th25 yearsFemaleYesYesNatural causes
„ 26th4 yearsMaleYesYesDiphtheria