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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 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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was due to pulmonary complications, with the exception of 1, which
was certified "Influenza and Exhaustion." It will be seen from
the Table below that the chief victims were the aged : —
Ages at Death.
From 1 to 5 years 1
„ 5 „ 20 „ 1
,, 20 „ 40 „ 3
„ 40 „ 60 „ 2
,1 CO „ 80 „ 10
Inquests.
During the year 1891, there were held 58 inquests. The causes which produced death were as follows:—
| Natural causes | 30 |
| Injuries received by being caught between the buffers of two carriages at the Charing Cross Station, S.E.R | 1 |
| injuries received from being run over by a train on S.E.R | 1 |
| Injuries received from fall from house or scaffold. | 7 |
| Injuries received from a fall | 3 |
| „ „ „ being run over in the street | 4 |
| Bums (child) whilst playing with the fire | 1 |
| „ (infant) caused by cradle catching lire | 1 |
| „ caused by the upsetting of a lamp | 1 |
| Suffocation (infants) when in bed | 2 |
| Drowning | 4 |
| Pistol shot wound (suicide) | 1 |
| Alcoholic poisoning | 1 |
| Chloroform when about to undergo an operation | 1 1 |
| 58 |