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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
Battersea 1911
[Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1911]
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Inquests.
During the year 1911, inquests were held in 277 cases with the following results:—
| Natural causes | 172 | |
| Open Verdict— | ||
| Found dead | 2 | |
| Found drowned | 6 | |
| 8 | ||
| Accidental Causes— | ||
| Drowning | 3 | |
| Burns and Scalds | 17 | |
| Poisoning | 2 | |
| Falls, &c. | 30 | |
| Run over (in street and on railway) | 20 | |
| Suffocation | 3 | |
| Other injuries | 10 | |
| 85 | ||
| Suicide— | ||
| Cut throat | 1 | |
| Hanging and Strangulation | 2 | |
| Poison | 7 | |
| 10 | ||
| Homicide— | ||
| Fractured Skull | 1 | |
| Suffocation | 1 | |
| 2 | ||
| Total | 277 | |
Ambulances.
The Council have provided for some years past a wheeled
ambulance at each of the following six points in the Borough.—
Queens Road (at Queens Circus).
Clapham Junction (at junction of Falcon Road and Lavender
Hill).
Bridge Road (at junction of Surrey Lane South and Bridge
Road).
York Road (at junction of York Road and Plough Road).
Battersea Park Road (outside Christ Church).
Nightingale Lane (Wandsworth Common end).
These ambulances are freely accessible to the public. They
are frequently availed of by the Police and have proved of valuable
service in connection with street accidents, &c. Each ambulance
is fitted with the necessary appliances, dressings, &c., for rendering
" first aid " to the injured.