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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
Battersea 1893
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1893
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birth become more numerous yearly, owing to improved
registration, as formerly an infant living but a few hours was
frequently buried as stillborn.
Inquests. During the year 1893, 276 cases came under the
notice of the Coroner. Thirty-nine of these were cases in
which he decided that no further inquiry was necessary, and
they are marked in the Registrar's Returns as “submitted to
Coroner,” which is considered sufficient to authorise
registration.”
In the other 237 cases inquests were held with the following results, as given in the verdicts of the respective juries:—
| From Natural Causes | 135 | |
| From Accidental Causes:— | ||
| Suffocation | 27 | |
| Burns | 3 | |
| Scalds | 4 | |
| Run over | 6 | |
| Knocked down by a horse | 1 | |
| Thrown from horse | 1 | |
| Strangulation | 1 | |
| Drowning | 10 | |
| Fractures oi skull, &c. | 19 | |
| Poisoning | 2 | |
| Want of attention at birth | 4 | |
| Stabbing | 1 | |
| — | 79 | |
| From Homicidal Causes:— | ||
| Suicide—Hanging | 3 | |
| Drowning | 3 | |
| Cut Throat | 1 | |
| — | 7 | |
| Murder—Suffocation | 1 | |
| Fractured Skull | 1 | |
| — | 2 | |
| Found Dead:— | ||
| Drowned | 9 | |
| Knocked down by trains | 4 | |
| Fracture | 1 | |
| — | 14 | |
| Total | 237 |