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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 1905
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1905
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Glanders.
Glanders was the cause of the death of a man who had
been employed in some omnibus stables in Filmer Road in
which several horses were found to be affected with chronic
glanders.
Certification of the Causes of Death.
Of the 2,364 deaths registered, 2,176 or 92 % were certified
by registered medical practitioners and 187 by the Coroner after
inquest, only one death, that of a prematurely born infant,
being uncertified.
Inquests.
At the 187 inquests held on inhabitants of Fulham, the following verdicts were returned:— TABLE XXVI.
| Deaths from natural causes | 101 |
| Death through accident or negligence— | |
| Run over | 7 |
| 20 | Falls |
| 10 | Burns or Scalds |
| Drowning | 3 |
| Suffocation by food | 3 |
| Suffocation of infants in bed | 14 |
| Want of attention at birth | 3 |
| Contact with live electric rail | 1 |
| Surgical narcosis | 1 |
| Food poisoning | 1 |
| Other injuries | 8 |
| 71 | |
| Suicide— | |
| Poison | 6 |
| Strangulation | 2 |
| Gunshot | 1 |
| Hanging | 1 |
| Drowning | 2 |
| 12 | |
| Homicide | 2 |
| Open verdict—found dead | 1 |
| 187 | |