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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
Poplar 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Suicide | 13 |
| Food poisoning | — |
| Poisoning by venomous animals | — |
| Other acute accidental poisonings (not by gas) | 1 |
| Conflagration | — |
| Accidental burns (conflagrations excepted) | 7 |
| Accidental mechanical suffocation | 3 |
| Accidental absorption of irrespirable or poisonous gas | 1 |
| Accidental drowning | 9 |
| Accidental injury: | |
| By firearms | — |
| By cutting or piercing instruments | — |
| By fall | 27 |
| In mining and quarrying | — |
| By machinery | — |
| By other forms of crushing: | |
| Road vehicles | 19 |
| Railways | 2 |
| Other crushing accidents | 2 |
| Injury by animals (poisoning by venomous animals | |
| excepted) | — |
| Wounds of war | 2 |
| Execution of civilians by belligerent armies | — |
| Hunger or thirst | — |
| Excessive cold | — |
| Excessive heat | — |
| Lightning | — |
| Electricity (lightning excepted) | 1 |
| Homicide: | |
| By firearms | — |
| By cutting or piercing instruments | — |
| By other means | 3 |
| Infanticide | — |
| Fracture (cause not specified) | 1 |
| Other and unstated forms of accidental violence | 3 |
| Violent deaths of unstated nature (i.e., accidental, suicidal, etc.) and cause | 6 |
| 100 |
For death rates from violence, and the percentage of inquest cases to total
deaths, see Table IV.