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 1914 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX P.
| Mortuary Returns, 1914. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bodies removed to Mortuary— | ||
| On Coroner's Order | 250 | |
| By Police | 8 | |
| From London Hospital | 9 | |
| On Sanitary Inspector's Order | 1 | |
| By Request of Relatives | 64 | |
| Total | 332 | |
| Number of Inquests held | 263 | |
| Number of Post Mortem Examinations made | 95 | |
| Particulars of Bodies on which Inquests were held— | ||
| Bodies removed by Police from Canal | 4 | |
| Do do. Street | 2 | |
| Do. do. Great Eastern Railway. | 1 | |
| Do. do. found in Parcels | 1 | |
| Bodies received from Bethnal Green Infirmary | 59 | |
| Do. do. Bethnal House Asylum | 2 | |
| Do. do. Queen's Hospital | 21 | |
| Do. do. Mildmay Mission Hospital | 8 | |
| Do. do. Victoria Park Hospital | 2 | |
| Do. do. Private Houses, etc. | 163 | |
| Total | 263 | |
| Inquest cases according to age periods— | ||
| Number under one year | 77 | |
| Number over one year and under live years | 18 | |
| Do. five do. ten do. | 14 | |
| Do. ten do. twenty years | 9 | |
| Do. twenty do. thirty do. | 9 | |
| Do. thirty do. forty do. | 13 | |
| Do. forty do. fifty do. | 24 | |
| Do. fifty do. sixty do. | 30 | |
| Do. sixty do. seventy do. | 28 | |
| Do. seventy do. eighty do. | 30 | |
| Do. eighty years | 11 | |
| 263 | ||