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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 1915

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE LXII.

TABLE LXII.

INQUESTS.Sub-Districts.Whole Borough.
Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth
Deaths from Natural Causes5..961131
Accidental:—
Knocked down by motor car31....48
Knocked down by railway train1..21..4
Falls1..2..14
Burns....22..4
Fall down stairs....2..13
Thrown out of side car....12..3
Knocked down by horse van........22
Knocked down by tram car1....1..2
Fall from window1......12
Fall from ladder..11....2
Crushed by crane1........1
Scalds......1..1
Suffocation by food in larynx......1..1
Drowning....1....1
Gas poisoning in military mine..1......1
Suicidal:—
Cut throat....2....2
Drowning........11
Gun shot wounds....1....1
Poisoning by Belladonna . .....1....1
Poisoning by Hydrochloric Acid......1..1
Felo-de-Se:— Lead poisoning self administered to procure a miscarriage..1........
Manslaughter:— Knife stab in abdomen....1....1
Open Verdicts:— Found drowned....1....1
Found dead....1....1
Totals1342 715218o

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