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
St Martin-in-the-Fields 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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Inquests.
In the year 1879, there were held 60 inquests. Subjoined are the causes which produced death:—
| Natural causes | 24 |
| Injuries received from falling downstairs | 3 |
| Run over or knocked down in the street | 6 |
| Burns and scalds | 1 |
| Cause not ascertained | 2 |
| Injuries received from falling through a skylight | 1 |
| Suffocation (children, when in bed with Parents) | 2 |
| Drowning (No evidence to show how deceased came into the water 4 | 5 |
| Drowning (Suicide) 1 | |
| Fall from a window | 3 |
| Pistol-shot wound (suicide) 2 | 3 |
| „ „ (accidental) 1 | |
| Hanging (Suicide) | 2 |
| Starvation and exposure | 1 |
| Fracture of Hip-joint from accidental fall | 1 |
| Carried forward | 54 |