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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 1917

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XXXVI.

TABLE XXXVI.

INQUESTS.Sub-Districts.Whole Borough.
Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth
Deaths from Natural Causes141025153094
Accidental:—
Run over by motor vehicles2i6i10
Fallsi2. .3i7
Suffocated in bed with parents2..31..6
Fall down flight of stairs2111..5
Killed by bomb dropped from hostile aircraft..22..15
Burns1....1..2
Knocked down by train1........1
Knocked down by tramcar....1....1
Gunshot wounds..1......1
Suffocated in bath....1....1
Fall on open knife......1..1
Exposure......1..1
Ptomaine poisoning........11
Fall from window........11
Drowning........11
Suicidal:—
Cut throat1......12
Gunshot wounds1......12
Hanging........22
Poisoning by Salts of Lemon1........1
Poisoning by Veronal....1....1
Poisoning by Cyanide of Potassium........11
Poisoning by Ammonia........11
Drowning........11
Open Verdicts:—
Foumd dead..1........
Totals2618402442150