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Croydon 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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TABLE IV— 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.0-1.1-2.2-5.5-15.15-25.25-45.45-65.65 and upwards.
Up. Norwood.Norbury.W. Thornton.Bensham Mnr.Thornton Hth.8th. Norwood.Woodside.East.Addiacombe.Whitehorse MnrBroad Green.Central.Wad don.South.
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172Injury by fall............111...22.........1...6(2)8844..........................................44
173Injury in mines and quarries............................................................................................................
174Injury by machines............................................................................................................
17-5Injury by other crushing (vehicles, railways, landslides, &c.)31221...11...3342......21 (10)2323194..................21526...412...
176Injury by animals............................................................................................................
177Starvation............................................................................................................
178Excessive cold............................................................................................................
179Effects of heat............................................................................................................
180Lightning............................................................................................................
181Electricity (lightning excepted)............................................................................................................
182Homicide by firearms............................................................................................................
183Homicide by cutting or piercing instruments............................................................................................................
184Homicide by other means1..........................................1 (l)11...1.................................1............
185Fractures (cause not specified)............................................................................................................
186Other violence1.....................1...1...............333...........................1...1...1.........
XIV. —III-Defined Causes.
187Dropsy............................................................................................................
188(A) Syncope, (aged I year and under 70)............................................................................................................
188(B) Sudden death (not otherwise defined)............................................................................................................
189 189(A) Heart failure (aged 1 year and under 70) (B.C.D E.) Other ill-defined causes............................................................................................................
(B) Atrophy, debility, marasmus (aged 1 year and under 70)............................................................................................................
(C) Teething............................................................................................................
(D) Pyrexia............................................................................................................
(E) Other ill-defined deaths............................................................................................................
189(F) Cause not specified............................................................................................................
Totals1587150119135181121861511971711531721375680 (232)184200793210759581171817123334565710997253226353549

The total Institution Deaths include those of strangers occurring within the Borough. Deaths of such strangers occurring at the Workhouse, Mayday
Road Hospital, Borough Hospital, General Hospital, Purley War Memorial Hospital, Norwood Cottage Hospital, are excluded from all other
columns of the Table. The numbers so excluded are in brackets.