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Croydon 1926

[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.Woodnide.East.Addiscombe.Whitehoree MnrBroad Green.Central.Wad don.South.
MFMFMFMFMFMFMFMF
172 Injury by fall...1243...2222...2......15 (5)2020128..................1.........22177
173Injury in mines and quarries........................................................................................................
174Injury by machines.........................................................................................................
175Injury by other crushing (vehicles, railways, landslides, &c.)5331132222...239...51 (17)3838308.........123...8...102444...
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 means............................................1 (1)..................................................
185Fractures (cause not specified)............................................................................................................
186Othei violence XIV.—III-Defined Causes..................................1.........2(1)111.....................................1.........
187Dropsy........................................................................................
188(A) Syncope (aged I year and under 70).................................................................................................
188(B) Sudden death (not otherwise defined)....................................1............11....................................1..
189(A) Heart failure (aged I year and under 70).......................................................................................................
189(B.C.D.E.) Other ill-defined causes (B) Atrophy, debility, marasmus (aged I year and under 7o)..........................................................................................
(C) Teething.........................................................................................................
(D) Pyrexia....................................................................................
(E) Other ill defined deaths1..................1............]1211..................1............1...
189(F) Cau<e not specified........................................2 (2).........................................................
Totals18012615514914420513511715221516916017917581226(305)2462269109011791229021 |9272431274041129145293 |271427572

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The total Institution Deaths include those of strangers occurring within Institutions in the Borough. The numbers so included are in brackets. Deaths of
such strangers are excluded from all other columns of the table, as are all deaths of non-residents occurring in the Borough.