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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

Wandsworth 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE XV.

TABLE XV.

INQUESTS.Clapham.PutneyStreatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Totals.
Deaths from Natural Causes:—111016855100
Accidental:—
Suffocation....5....5
Falls4..41312
Run over, Railway &c.....3....3
Suffocation in bed with parents..........28
Burns1......24
Fracture of leg........11
Fracture of leg and neck........11
Fracture of arm and shock........11
Injury to knee and shock........11
Heart disease and suffocation........11
Blood-poisoning........11
Fracture of rib........11
Administration of chloroform........11
Fracture of neck........11
Fracture of skull........44
Hæmorrhage from umbilicalcord........11
Hæmorrhage from want of attention at birth1........1
Poisoning from guaiacol1........1
Thrown out of van..1......1
Train accident..1......1
Cerebral congestion..1......1
Suicide:—
Hanging....1..14
Bullet wounds........13
Drowning11......2
Cut throat1......13
Oxalic acid poisoning1........1
Gun shot....1....1
Carbolic acid poisoning..1....12
Irritant poisoning..l......1
Fracture of skull........l1
Poisoning by morphia........l1
Poisoning......1..1
Syncope........11
Murder:—
Bullet wound........l1
Suffocation, newly born1........1
Fracture of skull1........1
Hanging1........1
Open Verdicts:—
Drowning..2....57
Suffocation........33
Chronic Alcoholism........33
Cause of death not ascertainable........11
Embolism from injury to arm........11
Peritonitis accelerated by chronic lead poisoning........11
Found dead on railway, &c.....31..4
Totals3121331398196