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 1915
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1915 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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| Natural Causes | 116 | |
| Accidental Deaths— | ||
| Burns | 9 | |
| Breaking of an Emery Wheel | 1 | |
| Drowned | 2 | |
| Falls | 20 | |
| Run over in street, etc., by Motor Bus | 6 | 14 |
| „ Van | 2 | |
| ,, on Railway | 5 | |
| „ by Horse Brake | 1 | |
| Knocked down by Tram Car | 2 | |
| Scalds | 1 | |
| Strangulation | 1 | |
| Suffocation whilst in Bed | 7 | |
| „ by Food | 2 | |
| Accelerated by Destitution | 1 | |
| Alcoholic Cirrhosis | 1 | |
| Death while under Chloroform | 1 | |
| Found Drowned | 1 | |
| Ptomaine Poisoning | 2 | |
| Septicaemia | 4 | |
| Want of Attention at Birth | 6 | |
| Suicide— | ||
| Cut Throat | 1 | 12 |
| Gas Poisoning | 2 | |
| Hanging | 4 | |
| Poisoning | 3 | |
| Revolver Shot | 1 | |
| Self Strangulation | 1 | |
| Total | 203 | |
| Bodies received under Public Health (London) Act— | ||
| Diphtheria | 3 | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 3 | |
| Erysipelas | 1 | |
| Measles | 4 | |
| 11 | ||