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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 1914

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 161
Hospital, one in Tooting Bec Asylum, four on the railway, and 22 in
other places and on the street.

Table: TABLE LXXXV.

TABLE LXXXV.

Sub.Districts.Whole Borough.
INQUESTS.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth
Deaths from Natural Causes1712191639103
Accidental:—
Falls112...26
injury at birth12...216
Burns...12115
Knocked down by train122......5
Knocked down by motor...13...15
Suffocated in bed with parents1...1114
Struck by lightning............33
Fall down flight of stairs......3......3
Drowning...1......12
Run over by road locomotive...2.........2
Fall down well of lift...1......12
Crushed by fall of wall1............1
Blow on head whilst at play1............1
Discharge of rifle...1............
Thrown off motor cycle...1.........1
Kicked by horse...1.........1
Overdose of morphia......1......1
Death under art anæsthetic......1......1
Knocked down by motor cycle......1......1
Thrown from van......1......1
Regurgitation of vomited food............11
injury to eye caused by fall............11
Suicidal:.
Cut throat122......5
Poisoning by Spirits of Salts1...2......3
Poisoning by Oxalic Acid...1......12
Drowning...1......12
Hanging......2......2
injuries following jump from bridge...1.........1
Cut artery in wrist...1.........1
Gun shot wounds...1.........1
Poisoning by Carbolic Acid......1......1
Poisoning by Coal Gas............11
Poisoning by Opium......1......1
Open Verdicts:—
Found drowned...1......12
Found dead...1.........1
Totals2535442056180