London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Willesden 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Absorption of Deleterious Gases (conflagration excepted)96.........1...2.....................
Accidental Drowning4......1............1...1............
Inj ury by Firearms2.........1......1*..................2
Injury by Cutting or Piercing Instruments2..........................................
Injury by Fall6.....................1...3.........3
Injury in Mines and Quarries.............................................
Injury by Machines.......................................1
Injury by Other Crushing, Vehicles, Railways, Landslides, &c.11......42...113...............4
Injury by Animals2.....................1...1.........1
Starvation.............................................
Excessive "Cold..........................................
Effect of Heat.............................................
Lightning.............................................
Electricity (lightning excepted)..........................................
Homicide by Firearms.............................................
Homicide by Cutting or Piercing Instruments....................................
Homicide by Other Means.............................................
Fractures (cause not specified).............................................
Other Violence.............................................
14.—Ill-defined Causes.
Dropsy.............................................
Syncope (aged 1 year and under 70)..........................................
Sudden Death (not otherwise defined).............................................
Heart Failure (aged 1 year and under 70) ...51..................211.........
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus (aged 1 year and under 70).............................................
Teething.............................................
Pyrexia.............................................
Other Ill-defined Deaths.............................................
Cause not Specified.............................................
Totals167227477553834499216515621322323462519

* Wounds received in battle.