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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 1902
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1902
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Diseases of the Heart.
Heart disease was the assigned cause of 122 deaths, the
average for the preceding nine years being 116.
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition.
Eight deaths were returned as due to diseases and accidents
of parturition, and, including the deaths from septicaemia, the
total number of deaths reported as occurring within twenty-one
days of childbirth was 18, or one death to every 266 births.
Deaths from Violence.
Different forms of violence caused 95 deaths, viz.:—
TABLE XXXI. Accident or Negligence.
| Falls | 26 | |
| Run over | 11 | |
| Drowning | 2 | |
| Burns or scalds | 8 | |
| Suffocation of infants in bed | 12 | |
| Otherwise | 17 | |
| - | 76 | |
| Suicides | 16 | |
| Murder | 2 | |
| Manslaughter | 1 | |
| — | 19 | |
| 95 |
Certification of the Causes of Death.
Of the 2,488 deaths registered, 2,271, or 91.3 per cent. were
certified by registered medical practitioners, and 216 by the
Coroner after inquest, only one death being uncertified.
Inquests.
At 121 inquests the deaths were returned as due to natural
causes, and in 95 to some form of violence. Those due to
natural causes may be classified as under:—