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 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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The fatal diseases may be classified as follows:
Diseases of the brain and nervous system
(including convulsions 10) - - 24
Diseases of the circulatory and respiratory
systems - - 52
Other visceral diseases - - 7
Tubercular diseases, including phthisis 3
"Syncope" - - 6
Debility - - - 4
Zymotic diseases (measles, 2, diarrhoea, 1) 3
Other causes - - - 7
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The violent deaths were classified as follows:
Accident, (56, viz.
By suffocation: of infants (in bed), under
one year, 21; and of a man, by coal gas 22
By burns - - - 10
By drowning - - - 1
By poison - - 4
By fractures and contusions, 29, viz.—
By vehicles - - - 4
By falls, under various circumstances 21
By injuries, otherwise - - 4
Suicide, 16, viz.—
By hanging - - - 1
By cut, stab - - - 5
By poison - - 1
By pistol-shot - - - 6
Otherwise - - 3
Homicide, 2, viz.—
Manslaughter - - 1
Murder - - - 1
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