[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough] page 38

Wandsworth 1922

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

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Table XXIII.

Inquests.	Sub-Districts.					Whole Borough.
Inquests.	Clapham.	Pautney.	Streatham.	Tooting.	Wandsworth.	Whole Borough.
Deaths from Natural Causes	4	4	12	2	11	33
Accidental—
Run over by motor vehicles	3	1	7	3	6	20
Falls	2	..	2	2	1	7
Fall down stairs	2	..	..	2	1	5
Scalds	1	..	1	1	1	4
Fall from bicycle	..	..	..	..	3	4
Knocked down by tramcar	..	..	3	..	..	3
Fall from ladder	..	1	1	..	..	2
Fall from roof	..	..	..	..	2	2
Knocked down by train	..	..	1	..	1	2
Suffocated by regurgitated food	2					2
Death under anaesthetic	..	..	1	..	1	2
Fall down lift shaft	..	..	..	..	..	1
Burns from exploded petrol tank	1	..	..	..	..	1
Crushed by steam lorry	..	..	1	..	..	1
Knocked down by runaway horse	..	..	..	..	1	1
Gunshot wounds	..	..	1	..	..	1
Burns	..	..	..	..	1	1
Crushed by overturned motor car	..	..	..	..	1	1
Suicidal—
Drowning	3	..	..	. .	..	3
Cut throat	..	..	..	2	..	2
Gunshot wounds	..	..	1	..	1	2
Fall from cliff	..	..	..	..	l	1
Jumped in front of train	..	..	..	1	..	1
Poisoning by HydrochloricAcid	1	..	..	..	..	1
Do. Carbolic Acid	..	..	1	..	..	1
Open Verdicts—
Found drowned	3	..	l	1	..	5
Found dead	..	..	..	1	..	1
Murder	..	..	l	..	..	1
Totals	22	7	34	16	32	111