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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 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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age, was 94, and the death-rate per 1,000 population 0.74,
compared with 1.27 and 0 77 in the two previous years.
The Zymotic death-rate has fallen steadily since 1901, and
is now less than half what it was then.
24. Inquests. There were 123 inquests, compared with
121, 128, 115, 105, 107, 123, and 105, in the seven preceding
years.
The following table gives particulars as to the cause of death:—
| 1. | Natural causes | 64 |
| 2. | Alcoholism | 1 |
| 3. | Accidental causes: Burns and Scalds | 1 |
| Drowning | 8 | |
| Falls | 12 | |
| Fractures | 6 | |
| Run over | 3 | |
| Suffocation, overlying | 1 | |
| Poison | 1 | |
| Other accidental causes | 5 | |
| - 37 | ||
| 4. | Homicidal cases: | |
| Suicide | 20 | |
| Murder and Manslaughter | 1 | |
| 21 | ||
| Total | 123 | |
The "Accidental Causes" were 49, 23, 42, 44, and 35, in
the five preceding years. The "Homicidal Causes" were
15, 14, 6, 11, and 11, in the same years.