Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Absorption of Deleterious Gases (conflagration | |||||||||||||||
excepted) | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Accidental Drowning | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
Injury by Firearms | ... | ||||||||||||||
Injury by Cutting or Piercing Instruments | ... | ||||||||||||||
Injury by Fall | 11 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
Injury in Mines or Quarries | ... | ||||||||||||||
Injury by Machines | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Injury by Other Crushing, Vehicles, Railways, Land | |||||||||||||||
slides, &c. | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | |||
Injury by Animals | |||||||||||||||
Starvation | |||||||||||||||
Excessive Cold | |||||||||||||||
Effect of Heat | |||||||||||||||
Lightning | |||||||||||||||
Electricity (lightning excepted) | |||||||||||||||
Homicide by Firearms | |||||||||||||||
Homicide by Cutting or Piercing Instruments | |||||||||||||||
Homicide by Other Means | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Fractures (cause not specified) | |||||||||||||||
Other Violence | |||||||||||||||
Dropsy | — | ||||||||||||||
Syncope (aged 1 year and under 70) | ... | ||||||||||||||
Sudden Death (not otherwise defined) | |||||||||||||||
Heart Failure (aged 1 year and under 70) | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus (aged 1 year and under | |||||||||||||||
70) | ... | ||||||||||||||
Teething | |||||||||||||||
Pyrexia | |||||||||||||||
Other Ill-defined Deaths | |||||||||||||||
Cause not Specified | |||||||||||||||
Totals | 1,653 | 143 | 73 | 37 | 22 | 30 | 39 | 69 | 113 | 188 | 270 | 332 | 253 | 84 | 592 |