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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
Wandsworth 1894
Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895
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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
TABLE X.
TABLE X.
| INQUESTS. | Clapham. | Putney. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | Whole Distric |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 32 | 72 | |
| Overlaying | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
| Falls | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| Run over by trains | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Erysipelas caused by injury | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Drowning | 1 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Suffocation | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Suffocation from coal gas | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Injury to head | ||||||
| Fractured thigh | ||||||
| Injury to foot | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Burns | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Perforation of stomach | l | 1 | ||||
| Rupture of aneurism | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Syncope | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Syncope from chloroform | ||||||
| inhalation .. | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Hanging | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Poisoning by morphia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| „ ,, prussic acid | 1 | 1 | ||||
| ,, ,, carbolic acid | 1 | 1 | ||||
| „ „ strychnia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Wound in throat | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Strangulation | l | 1 | ||||
| Drowning | l | 1 | ||||
| Run over by train | 1 | •• | 1 | |||
| Tabt s mesenterica accelerated | ||||||
| by neglect | l | 1 | ||||
| Strangulation | l | 1 | ||||
| Found dead | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Found drowned | l | 4 | 5 | |||
| Injury to head | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Suffocation from fire—no evi | ||||||
| dence to show how caused | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Poisoning from carbolic acid— | ||||||
| no evidence to show how | ||||||
| caused | 1 | •• | 1 | |||
| Totals | 40 | 21 | 24 | 7 | 58 | 150 |