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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

Shoreditch 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: (1) Accident or Negligence.

(1) Accident or Negligence.

By Falls......4113...4...12...4435416
„ Railways........................1..................11
„ Horses and Vehicles...111...12............12...226
,, Wounds—Gunshot, Cut, and Stab...1...1...11............11...225
In Building operations...................................................
,, Conflagrations...................................................
By Burns and Scalds873..................1...10113914
,, Poison...................................................
,, Drowning......41..............................336
,, Suffocation (in bed)331...........................3441261234
„ Negligence at Birth...................................................
Otherwise4...2...3...2............4...16411
(2) Homicide.
Murder and Manslaughter...................................................
(3) Suicide.
Wounds—Gunshot, Cut, Stab..................1.....................1...1
Poison.........1............1.........2.........2
Drowning.........1.................................11
Hanging..................1.....................1...1
Otherwise...................................................
(4) Execution.
Hanging...................................................
VIII.
Causes not specified or ill.defined99921...12221...1086383540119
Total8675271049714421327512125423919139441071564510902860