Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Plumstead]
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TABLE VIII.
Abstract from Mortuary Register for 1895.
Date. | Age. | Sex. | Inquest or No. | Post Mortem or No. | Cause of Death. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1895 | |||||
Jan. 13 th | 3 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Inflammation of brain. |
„ 29th | 29 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Hemorrhage from lungs. |
„ 29 th | 61 years | Female | Yes | Yes | Failure of the heart's action. |
Feb. 7th | 36 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Aneurism of the aorta. |
„ 11th | — | Female | No | No | |
„ 23rd | 3 9/12 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Convulsions. |
Mar. 10th | 35 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Committed suicide by taking oxalic acid. |
„ 12th | 7 months | Female | Yes | Yes | Congestion of Lungs. |
April 15th | 10 months | Female | Yes | Yes | Convulsions. |
„ 26th | 36 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Apoplexy. |
May 13th | 6 weeks | Female | No | No | |
„ 20th | 35 years | Female | Yes | Yes | Suffocated by the fumes from bricks. |
„ 20 th | 61 years | Male | Yes | No | Committed suicide whilst temporarily insane. |
June 3rd | 3 months | Female | Yes | Yes | Suffocation. |
„ 3rd | 4 weeks | Male | Yes | Yes | Suffocation. |
„ 6th | 56 years | Female | No | No | Typhoid fever. |
„ 6th | 7 years | Female | No | No | Typhoid fever. |
July 13 th | 6 weeks | Male | Yes | Yes | Suffocation. |
„ 13th | — | Male | Yes | Yes | |
„ 15 th | 29 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Asthenia from Purpura Hemorrhagica. |
Aug. 18th | 20 years | Male | Yes | — | Committed suicide during temporary insanity. |
„ 18th | 32 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. |
Sept. 2nd | 11 months | Female | Yes | Yes | Pneumonia and convulsions. |
„ 11th | 52 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Heart disease. |
Oct. l6th | 20 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Pressure upon the heart from over distention of the stomach, caused by the deceased having eaten about 2½-lbs. of raw apples which were found in stomach. |
Nov. 14th | 61 years | Male | Yes | No | Accidental death. |
„ 15th | 26 years | Female | Yes | Yes | Misadventure. |
Dec. 3rd | 54 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Heart disease. |
„ 4th | 31 years | Female | Yes | Yes | Puerperal Eclampsia: |
„ 23rd | 59 years | Male | Yes | Yes | Pneumonia accelerated by alcoholism. |
„ 27th | 66 years | Male | Yes | No | Suffocation. |
„ 27 th | 65 years | Female | Yes | No | From burns, the origin of of which there was no evidence to show. |
„ 30 th | 45 years | Female | Yes | Yes | Syncope. |
„ 30th | 6 years | Female | No | No | Diphtheria. |
„ 30 th | 12½ years | Male | Yes | No | Found drowned |
„ 31st | 4 years | Female | No | No | Diphtheria. |