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Wandsworth 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Non-Infective Diseases. 29
TABLE XV.
| Inquests. | Sub-Districts. | Whole Borough. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | ||
| Deaths from Natural Causes | 20 | 3 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 31 | 107 |
| Accidental :— | |||||||
| Knocked down by motor vehicles | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 36 |
| Falls | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 33 |
| Falls from vehicles | 3 | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 20 |
| Falls from a height | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| Scalds and burns | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| Deaths under anaesthetics | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||
| Drowning | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 4 |
| Knocked down by train | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 4 | |
| Poisoning by coal gas | -- | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Suffocation by inspiration of food | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Crushed by fall of wall | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Other | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| Suicidal :— | |||||||
| Cut throat | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | |
| Drowning | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| Poisoning by :— | |||||||
| Coal Gas | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | |
| Lysol | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | 4 | 9 |
| Hydrochloric Acid | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 4 |
| Potassium Bromide | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Phosphorus | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Hanging | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | |
| Gunshot wounds | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | |
| Strangulation | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | |
| Jumped from a height | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Run over by train | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Felo-de-Se | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | ||
| Open Verdicts :— | |||||||
| Found drowned | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| Execution | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Totals | 52 | 29 | 58 | 45 | 49 | 89 | 322 |