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Croydon 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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TABLEIII—continued

No.CAUSE.LOCALITIES.Institution & Street Deaths which could not be distributed.Total Institution Deaths distributed and not distributed.Inquest Cases.Total all Ages.Males all Ages.Females all Ages.-11-2.2-5.5-15.15-25.25-4545-65.65 and upwards.
| West.North.' Central.East.South.South Norwood.Upper Norwood.Thornton Heath.
172Injury by fall6422...413161816212312
173Injury in mines and quarries
174Injury by machines1
175Injury by other crushing (vehicles, railways, landslides, &c.)74113111617143214433
176Injury by animals
177Starvation
178Excessive cold
179Effects of heat1111
180Lightning
181Electricity (lightning excepted)1111
182Homicide by firearms...
183Homicide by cutting or piercing instruments
184Homicide by other means
185Fractures (cause not specified)21144444
186Other violence121334311111
XIV.—Ill-Defined Causes.
187Dropsy
188(A) Syncope (aged 1 year and under 70)12312111
188(B) Sudden death (not otherwise defined1111
189(A) Heart failure (aged 1 year and under 70)211211633123
189(B.C.D.E.) Other ill-defined causes
(B) Atrophy, debility, marasmus (aged 1 year and under 70)1111
(C) Teething
(D) Pyrexia
(E) Other ill defined deaths
189(F) Cause not specified11221111
Totals55345123625424834899208186412352415123511803078710511286287492939
he total Institution Deaths include those of strangers occuring within the Borough. Deaths of such strangers occurring at the Workhouse, Workhouse Infirmary, Borough Hospital, General Hospital, Purley Cottage Hospital, Norwood Cottage Hospital, and 99, Central Hill (Servants'Reformatory), are excluded from all other columns of the Table.