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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
St Martin-in-the-Fields 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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Diarrhoea.— Six deaths from Diarrhoea occurred in the Parish,
of which three were non-parishioners occurring in the Charing
Cross Hospital, and there was one death of a parishioner from this
complaint in the Westminster Hospital.
Inquests.
During the year 1898, inquests were held in the Parish in
reference to the deaths of 52 persons, of whom 19 were residents,
and also 6 inquests were held respecting the deaths of parishioners
outside the Parish.
The causes which produced death were as follows:—
| Natural causes | 24 | |
| Poison, Hydrochloric Acid (suicide) | 1 | 4 |
| ,, Sulphate of Zinc (suicide) | 1 | |
| ,, Morphia (accidental) | 1 | |
| „ Prussic Acid (accidental | 1 | |
| Pistol Shot Wound (suicide) | 2 | |
| Hanging (suicide) | 1 | |
| Drowning | 2 | |
| Suffocation from pressure, newly born | 1 | 2 |
| ,, infant, when in bed with mother | 1 | |
| Haemorrhage from navel cord, newly born | 1 | |
| Exposure and want of attention, newly born | 1 | |
| Injuries received from falling down stairs or steps | 4 | |
| 4 | ||
| Injuries received from fall from window | 2 | |
| „ „ „ „ flies on to the stage of a theatre | 1 | |
| Injuries received from being run over by a railway train | 1 | |
| Injuries received from jumping out of a cart | 1 | |
| „ to neck (suicide) | 1 | |