Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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.