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
Bethnal Green 1914
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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| Still Born | 9 | |
| Tumour of Brain | 1 | |
| Ulcerated Stomach | 3 | |
| Varicella | 2 | |
| Chronic Alcoholism | 4 | |
| Found Drowned | 1 | |
| Poverty and Destitution | 4 | |
| Self Neglect | 1 | |
| Accidental Deaths— | ||
| Burns | 9 | |
| Falls | 30 | |
| Scalds | 4 | |
| Septicaemia | 1 | |
| Suffocation whilst in Bed | 23 | |
| „ „ a Fit | 1 | |
| „ „ Drunk | 2 | |
| „ at Birth | 2 | |
| Misadventure, death whilst under Anæsthetic | 3 | |
| „ Appendicitis | 1 | |
| Ptomaine Poisoning | 1 | |
| Run over in street, etc., by Motor Car | 1 | 8 |
| „ „ Bus | 2 | |
| „ „ Horse Van | 4 | |
| „ by Great Eastern Train | 1 | |
| Knocked down by Tram Car | 1 | |
| Suicide— | ||
| Cut Throat | 1 | 12 |
| Drowning | 2 | |
| Hanging | 4 | |
| Poisoning | 4 | |
| Self Strangulation | 1 | |
| Total | 263 | |
| Bodies received under Public Health (London) Act— | ||
| Diphtheria | 5 | |
| Erysipelas | 1 | |
| 6 | ||