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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
Hampstead 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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26.
PUBLIC MORTUARY, NEW END.
| Coroner | 206 | ||
| Ambulance | 35 | ||
| Police | 3 | ||
| Public Health Department | 11 | 255 | |
| Causes of deaths:- | |||
| Natural Causes | 208 | ||
| Suicides | |||
| Hanging | 1 | ||
| Cut wrists | 1 | ||
| Coal Gas Poisoning | 6 | ||
| Drugs | 8 | ||
| Railwav | 1 | ||
| Plastic Bag over Head | 1 | ||
| Falls | 1 | 19 | |
| Accidental:- | |||
| Electrocution | 1 | ||
| Falls | 4 | ||
| Drowning | 1 | ||
| Traffic | 3 | ||
| Burns | 2 | ||
| Railway | 1 | 12 | |
| Criminal Abortion | 1 | ||
| Post Operative | 3 | ||
| Excusable Homicide | 1 | ||
| Bodies brought for accommodation | 11 | 255 | |
| No. of post mortem examinations carried out | 244 | ||
Of the 255 bodies admitted to the Mortuary 224 were of Hampstead
residents.
Coroner's Court.
The Hampstead and St.Pancras Coroner*s Court is at CamiBystreet,
N.W.I. Telephone EUSton 1691.
Coroner:- I.Milne, Esq.