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Poplar 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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INQUESTS AND DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE
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•The number of inquests held in the Borough was 267. From this
total must be deducted 87 non.residents, and 36 added of residents who
died outside the Borough, the nett total being 216.
Verdict of Violence :—
Railways 3
Vehicles and horses 18
Ships, boats and docks 3
Building operations 3
Conflagrations 0
Burns, scalds and explosions 4
Drowning (excluding suicides) 17
Suffocations in bed 1
Poisons and poisonous vapours 1
Other causes 23
Suicides 12
Murder 2
Total 87
Verdict of Natural Causes (including deaths from
disease accelerated by accidents) 129
Total 216
For death rates from violence, and the percentage of inquest cases to
total deaths, see Table V.