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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
Woolwich 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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The following table gives particulars as to the cause of death:—
| 1. Natural causes | 65 |
| 2. Alcoholism | 3 |
| 3. Accidental causes:— | |
| Burns and Scalds | 5 |
| Drowning | 7 |
| Falls | 11 |
| Fractures | 5 |
| Run over | 1 |
| Suffocation, overlying | 5 |
| Poison | 1 |
| Anaesthetics | 2 |
| Other accidental causes | 7 |
| 44 | |
| 4. Homicidal causes:— | |
| Suicide | 11 |
| Murder and Manslaughter | — |
| 11 | |
| 123 |
The " Accidental Causes " were 43, 35, 49, 23, and 42, in
the five preceding- years. The " Homicidal Causes " were 15,
7, 15, 14, and 6, in the same years.
25. Deaths in Public Institutions. Table 1 shows the
actual number of deaths occurring* in Public Institutions in
the Boroug-h, viz., 311, compared with 293, 296, 289, 276,
and 272, in the five preceding years. These deaths nearly
all occurred in the Poor Law Infirmary; they were 18.8 per
cent. of total deaths, compared with 19.4 in 1910. Table 1a
shows the institutions, inside and outside the Borough, receiving
sick and infirm persons belonging to the Borough,
and Table 4a shows the number of deaths from each
disease occurring in Public Institutions. Over one-third of
the total deaths occurred in the Infirmary or hospitals.