Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1904
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SUICIDES.
These numbered 14:—Seven took poison:—Oxalic
Acid (3), Laudanum, Hydrochloric Acid, Bichromate
of Potash, Rat Poison, one each; two died from
drowning; three hanged themselves; one shot himself,
and two cut their throats.
MURDER.
A French polisher in Gibraltar Walk murdered his
two children aged four and six by cutting their throats.
A baker in Columbia Road shot his mate and then shot
himself, both were aliens.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Five deaths were registered without medical certificates.
The cause of death was in each instance
entered as premature birth.
COWHOUSES AND SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
LIST OF APPLICATIONS FOR RENEWALS OF
LICENCES, 1904.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
Read, James, 294, Bethnal Green Road.
Meadway, George, 354, Bethnal Green Road.
Salmon, Alfred, 212, Brick Lane.
Challis, William Stanley, 278, Hackney Road.
Hudson, George, 397, Hackney Road.
Kimber, George Frederick, 21, Roman Road.
COWHOUSES.
Skinner, Edward, 63, Bishop's Road. (No. of cows—Shed No. 1—8,
No. 2—6.)
Museum Dairy Co., 379, Cambridge Road. (12 cows.)
Phillips, William, 42, Cheshire Street. (6 cows.)