London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Wandsworth 1918
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1918
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
| INQUESTS. | Sub-Districts. | Whole Borough. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Putney. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth | ||
| 18 | 18 | 22 | 22 | |||
| Run over by motor vehicles | — | — | 2 | 10 | ||
| Falls | — | |||||
| Fall down flight of stairs | — | 2 | ||||
| Burns | 2 | — | — | |||
| Suffocated by regurgitated food | — | — | 2 | — | ||
| Fall from bicycle | — | — | — | 2 | ||
| Asphyxia from coal gas | — | 2 | — | — | — | 2 |
| Injury at birth | — | — | — | 2 | ||
| Drowning | — | — | — | 2 | ||
| Scalds | — | — | — | 2 | ||
| Overdose of veronal | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Suffocated in bed with parents | — | — | — | — | ||
| Electrocution by touching high tension Wire | — | — | — | — | ||
| Hanging | — | — | 2 | 2 | ||
| Cut throat | — | 2 | — | |||
| Drowning | 2 | — | — | |||
| Poisoning by coal gas | — | — | — | 2 | ||
| Jumped from window | — | 2 | — | — | — | 2 |
| Gunshot Wounds | — | — | — | 2 | ||
| Poisoning by hydrocyanic acid | — | — | — | — | ||
| Poisoning by weed killer | — | — | — | — | ||
| Jumped into copper of boiling water | — | — | — | — | ||
| — | — | — | — | |||
| Found dead | — | — | ||||
| Found drowned | — | — | — | — | 1 | |
| — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | |
| Totals | 66 | 199 | ||||