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
Battersea 1900
Report upon the public health & sanitary condition of Battersea during the year1900
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Mortuary.
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TABLE XXIII.
Number of bodies
received in the
Mortuary.
Number of bodies
upon which postmortem
examinations
were held.
Number of bodies
upon which Coroner's
inquests were held.
134
106
134
1888
140
1889
118
140
194
1890
148
199
169
1891
176
139
187
1892
163
193
237
1893
243
200
1894
208
224
197
232
1895
259
210
278
1896
293
242
2 73
1897
289
246
267
1898
238
294
260
1899
274
221
1900
273
291
234
The largest number of bodies received during any one
day of the year was on the 15th day of March when six were
admitted.