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
Kensington 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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46
Brought forward 95
Tubercular or Scrofulous diseases 8
Diarrhœa 3
Croup 1
Spasm of the Glottis 7
Syphilitic cachexia 1
Intemperance 1
Sunstroke 1
"Sudden" 1
"Found dead" 3
Accident 49
Violence {Suicide 5} 55
Wilful Murder 1
176
VIOLENT DEATHS.
| The violent deaths were caused as follows:— | ||||||
| Run over accidentally | By a wagon or cart | 3 | 5 | |||
| By a railway train | 2 | |||||
| Falls | From windows | 2 | 12 | |||
| „ the roof of a house | 1 | |||||
| „ ladders | 3 | |||||
| into areas | 3 | |||||
| from a bed | 1 | |||||
| downstairs | 1 | |||||
| from a railway | 1 | |||||
| Suffocation, accidental, of infants | 16 | |||||
| „ of an adult by fumes of a portable stove | 1 | |||||
| Scalds | 4 | |||||
| Burns | 2 | |||||
| Drowning | 1 | |||||
| "Injury" | 2 | |||||
| "Neglect at birth" | 2 | |||||
| Poisoning | Accidental. By sweet spirits of nitre | 1 | 4 | |||
| „ Chlorodyne | 1 | |||||
| „ Chloral | 1 | |||||
| „ Santonin (given for the cure of "worms") | 1 | |||||
| Carried forward | 49 | |||||