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 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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2. A corset-steel packer from Paradise Row, died
at Brook Street, Ratcliffe, from pleuro-pneumonia and
heart failure.
3. A baby, aged four weeks, from Columbia Road,
died at Andrew's Road, Hackney, from bronchopneumonia.
4. A stevedore, aged 57 years, from Reuben Street,
fell into a ship's hold at the Surrey Commerical Docks;
in addition to other injuries, his heart was ruptured and
his skull fractured.
5. A stoker, aged 65 years, from Fellbrigg Street,
was run over by a motor bus in Mile End Road; in
addition to other injuries his skull was fractured.
6. A painter and grainer, aged 53 years, from
Guinness' Buildings, cut his throat at Shoreditch Railway
Station during a fit of temporary insanity.
7. A stick finisher, aged 54 years, from Abbey
Street, died from chronic heart disease in St. John's Road,
Shoreditch.
8. A glass beveller, aged 29 years, from Garden
Place, was run over and crushed to death by a motor bus
in High Street, Shoreditch.
9. The wife of a caretaker, aged 65 years, from
Wilmot Street, died at a factory in Sylvester Road, Hackney,
from apoplexy due to cerebral hoemorrhage. She
had broken a rib in an accidental fall some time
previously.