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

Shoreditch 1894

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch for the year 1894

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By Falls.........1235...44......454619
„ Railways...............11........................22
„ Horses and Vehicles............1...1......1...1...2114
„ Wounds—Gunshot, Cut, and Stab.........1111...............211...4
In Building operations...................................................
„ Conflagrations...................................................
By Burns and Scalds1511...2...............6...24410
„ Poison..................1......1.........2......2
„ Drowning......2...31812............32712
„ Suffocation (in bed)20..............................203321220
„ Negligence at Birth7..............................7...1427
Otherwise......22...11...28......25...411
(2) Homicide.
Murder and Manslaughter......1....................................11
(3) Suicide.
Wounds—Gunshot, Cut, Stab.........1...11l2.........14...16
Poison.........11...2..................1214
Drowning...............1.....................1......1
Hanging...................................................
Otherwise...................................................
(4) Execution.
Hanging...................................................
VIII.
Causes not specified or ill-defined734......322213...77622233990
Total704405929214722522411121922126110931757455210232466