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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Leyton 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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It will be seen that the most frequent calls made in the Council's
ambulances are (a) for the transfer of patients to and from hospitals,
and (b) for the transport of expectant mothers to hospitals for
confinement. A large proportion of both these categories are not
stretcher cases, and it is obviously uneconomic and unnecessary to
provide ambulances for their transport. Your Council therefore
acquired a sitting-case car (a 12 h.p. four-seater) for such sitting
cases.
Number of bodies deposited, death being due to:—
| Natural causes | 77 |
| Suicide | 4 |
| Accidents | 5 |
| 86 | |
| Number of Post-mortem examinations performed | 86 |
| Number of Inquests held |
In 75 instances no inquest was considered necessary in view
of the post-mortem findings that death was due to natural causes.
The causes of death in these cases were certified as follows:—
| Coronary thrombosis | 22 |
| ,, occlusion-atheroma | 13 |
| Myocardial degeneration | 5 |
| Congenital aortic stenosis | 1 |
| Acute bacterial endocarditis | 1 |
| Aortic stenosis-rheumatic | 2 |
| Aneurysm left iliac artery—specific | 1 |
| Cerebral haemorrhage | 3 |
| Hypertension | 8 |
| Pneumonia | 2 |
| Suppurative bronchitis | 2 |
| Toxic goitre | 1 |
| Inhalation of birth fluids | 1 |
| Atelectasis | 2 |
| Stillborn | 2 |
| Intercranial haemorrhage due to birth tear | 1 |
| Carcinoma uterus | 1 |
| „ brain | 1 |
| ,, caecum | 1 |
| Pulmonary tuberculosis | 1 |
| Senility | 4 |