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 1912 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX O.
Mortuary Returns, 1912.
Bodies removed to Mortuary—
On Coroner's Orders | 245 | |
By Police | 10 | |
From London Hospital | 14 | |
On Sanitary Inspector's Order | 5 | |
On Request of Relatives | 63 | |
Total | 337 |
Number of Inquests held 257
Number of Inquests held | 257 | |||
Number of Post Mortem Examinations made | 105 | |||
Particulars of Bodies on which Inquests were held— | ||||
Bodies removed by Police from Canal | 4 | |||
Do. | do. | Street | 5 | |
Do. | do. | found in Parcel | 1 | |
Bodies received from Bethnal Green Infirmary | 51 | |||
Do. | do. | Queen's Hospital | 14 | |
Do. | do. | Mild may Mission Hospital | 8 | |
Do. | do. | Private Houses, etc. | 174 | |
Total | 257 |
Inquest cases according to age period—
Number under one year | 69 | |||
Number over one year and under five years | 19 | |||
Do. | five | do. | ten do. | 14 |
Do. | ten | do. | twenty years | 10 |
Do. | twenty | do. | thirty do. | 4 |
Do. | thirty | do. | forty do. | 18 |
Do. | forty | do. | fifty do. | 28 |
Do. | fifty | do. | sixty do. | 28 |
Do. | sixty | do. | seventy do. | 38 |
Do. | seventy | do. | eighty do. | 21 |
Do. | eighty years | 8 | ||
Total | 257 |