London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Willesden 1926
[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 |