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

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Shoreditch 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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By Falls8...12215...31...32331018
„ Railways...................................................
„ Horses and Vehicles...212...1.........1...22...237
„ Wounds—Gunshot, Cut, and Stab...................................................
In Building operations...................................................
„ Conflagrations............................ . ......................
By Burns and Scalds371......11......1...10232714
„ Poison............1......1..................112
„ Drowning............111..................1113
„ Suffocation3.......... . .......1.........31...124
„ Suffocation (in bed)38...1........................3831161939
„ Negligence at Birth...................................................
Otherwise1...113......222...1321612
(2) Homicide.
Murder1.........1..................12.........2
Manslaughter........................1............1......1
(3) Suicide.
Wounds—Gunshot, Cut, Stab........................2.........1......12
Poison...............1........................1...1
Drowning............1...........................1...1
Hanging...............1. . ...................1......1
Otherwise............1l1...1............2114
(4) Execution.
Hanging...................................................
VIII.—DEATHS FROM ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES.
Marasmus8471........................91922293292
Debility, Atrophy, Inanition231....... . .............1...242471225
Mortification............1....... . .11......1......23
Dropsy.....................1...............1......1
Haemorrhage.........1...l1...1.........11...24
Malignant Disease............12732...1...263516
Tumour.........211......1............1135
Abscess........................2.........1......12
Other causes not specified81...1......4221...9282719
Total8464521008713921922811824024827129840061162110722704