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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
City of Westminster 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Coroner's Court and Mortuary
During 1960, 279 bodies were received in the Mortuary on Coroner's
Warrants, etc. Two bodies were admitted to await burial.
Number
of Cases
Inquest cases 71
Non-inquest cases 208
Post-mortem examinations held 274
Causes of death in the foregoing were as under:—
| Accidental drowning | 2 |
| Found drowned | 3 |
| Suicide by drowning | 5 |
| „ by other means | 21 |
| Accidents— Street | 8 |
| Domestic | 9 |
| Others | 8 |
| Natural causes | 208 |
| Misadventure | 1 |
| Murder | 1 |
| Miscellaneous causes | 13 |
Mortuary Accommodation—Arrangement with Holborn
Borough Council
The City Council and the Holborn Borough Council, with the approval
of the London County Council, made arrangements whereby bodies
from Holborn, which were not the concern of H.M. Coroner, were
accommodated at the City Council's Mortuary in Horseferry Road whilst
awaiting burial.
The arrangement came into operation on the 3rd September, 1956;
no bodies were received in the mortuary during 1960.