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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
Fulham 1897
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1897
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The total number of deaths recorded as occurring within 21 days of childbirth was 19, the causes assigned being—
| Septic Diseases | 8 |
| Puerperal Convulsions | 2 |
| Placenta Prævia, Flooding | 2 |
| Other Accidents of Childbirth | 4 |
| Heart Disease | 1 |
| Other Diseases | 2 |
| 19 |
or one death to every 219 births.
From the other classes of Local Diseases there were 233 deaths, viz.:—
| Diseases of Digestive System | 161 |
| „ Lymphatic „ | 2 |
| „ Urinary „ | 51 |
| „ Bones and Joints | 6 |
| „ Integumentary System | 3 |
| „ Organs of Special Sense | 6 |
| „ Glandlike Organs of uncertain use | 1 |
| 230 |
Class VII. Different forms of violence caused 77 deaths. ACCIDENT OR NEGLIGENCE.
| Fractures and Contusions | 32 | |
| Burns | 5 | |
| Poison | 1 | |
| Drowning | 6 | |
| Suffocation | Infants in Bed | 20 |
| Otherwise | 1 | |
| Otherwise | 2 — 67 | |
| SUICIDE. | ||
| Gunshot Wounds | 2 | |
| Cut, Stab | 3 | |
| Poison | 3 | |
| Hanging | 1 | |
| Otherwise | 1 — 10 | |
| 77 | ||