Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1916 page 46

Wandsworth 1916

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1916

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

TABLE XXXVI.

INQUESTS.	Sub-Distrcts.					Whole Borugh.
INQUESTS.	Clapham.	Putney.	Streatham.	Tooting.	Wandsworth	Whole Borugh.
Deaths from Natural Causes	19	10	21	11	36	97
Accidental:—
Knocked down by motor vehicles	3	5	1	2	4	15
Falls	1	1	1	2	2	7
Killed by bombs dropped from hostile aircraft	..	..	5	..	..	5
Drowning	..	2	..	..	6	8
Fall from bicycle	1		..	..	1	2
Asphyxia whilst in fit	..	1	..	..	1	2
Starvation and exposure	..	1	..	..	1	2
Suffocated in bed with
parents	..	..	2	..	..	2
Food poisoning	..	..	..	..	2	2
Fall from roof	1	..	..	..	..	1
Injury to hand whilst at	..
work	..	..	..	..	1	1
Crushed by falling tree	..	1	..	..	..	1
Knocked down by train	..	..	..	..	..	1
Knocked down by horse van	..	..	..	1	..	1
Gunshot wounds	..	..	..	..	..	1
Burns	..	..	..	..	1	1
Meningitis following injury	..	..	..	..		..
to nose	..	..	..	..	1	1
suicidal:—	..	..	..	..	..	..
Hanging	1	..	1	1	2	5
Drowning	..	1	..	..	2	3
Poisoning by Hydrochloric	..	..	..	..	..	..
Acid	..	..	..	..	1	1
Poisoning by Oxalic Acid	1	..	..	..	..	1
,, ,, Coal Gas	..	..	..	..	1	1
Cut throat	..	..	1	..	..	1
Gunshot wounds	..	..	..	..	1	1
Threw himself in front of a	..	..	..	..	..	..
van	..	1	..	..	..	1
Threw himself in front of a	..	..	..	..	..
tram	..	..	..	1	..	1
Murder	..	1	..	..	1	2
Open Verdicts:—	..	..	..	..	..	..
Found drowned	1	2	..	..	..	3
Found dead	..	1	1	..	..	2
Totals	28	27	35	18	64	172