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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Suicide.
Coal-gas poisoning 6
Gun-shot wound 1
Aspirin poisoning 1
Sodium amytal poisoning 1
Open Verdict.
Delayed narcotic poisoning 1
Natural Causes.
Coronary occlusion 1
Circulatory failure associated with asbestosis 1
Intestinal obstruction (unmasticated piece of orange
impacted in small intestine) 1
CORONER'S POST-MORTEMS.
During the year 227 Leyton residents were subjected to postmortem
examination by a Pathologist on the instructions of the
Coroner. The findings at the post-mortem were:—
Cancer of Stomach 1
„ Lung or Bronchus 5
,, Gall Bladder 4
Colon 7
„ Larynx 1
,, Rectum 3
,, Oesophagus 2
„ Brain 1
„ Prostate 2
Pulmonary tuberculosis 6
Specific aortic aneurysm 6
Ac. Suppurative meningitis 1
Ac. Meningococcal meningitis 1
Pulmonary embolism 2
Pyelo-nephritis 2
Cerebral haemorrhage 9
Cerebral abscess 2
Ruptured developmental cerebral aneurysm 1
Coronary thrombosis 36
,, atheroma 24
Cardiac failure due to hypertension 14
Myocardial degeneration 16
,, infarction 2