An inquiry into the statistics of deaths from violence and unnatural causes in the United Kingdom; with special reference to deaths from starvation, overlying of infants, burning, administration of anaesthetics, and poisoning... / by William A. Brend.
- Brend, William Alfred, 1873-
- Date:
- 1915
Licence: In copyright
Credit: An inquiry into the statistics of deaths from violence and unnatural causes in the United Kingdom; with special reference to deaths from starvation, overlying of infants, burning, administration of anaesthetics, and poisoning... / by William A. Brend. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![APPE]N[DICES. APPENDIX 1. DISTRIBUTION OF INQUESTS IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS. (Extracted from Amendment of the Law relating to Coroners and Inquests, Trans. Med.-Lec/. Soc, vol. x.) The following table, compiled from the Registrar- General's figures, shows the percentage of inquests held in urban and rural districts respectively. The towns are the twenty-four with the largest populations in England and Wales, and have not been selected in any way. The rural areas are chiefly the rural parts of Cambridgeshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Notts, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Yorkshire, and Carmarthenshire. Total deaths from all causes Percentage of deaths from violence. Percentage of inquests held. 24 largest towns 23 rural districts 132,505 77,890 4-1 3-9 9-9 5-5 The percentage of deaths from violence may be taken as a rough index of the general need for inquests, and it will be noticed that the proportion is practically the same in both town and country. Yet the percentage of inquests held in urban areas is nearly twice as high as that in rural districts.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21352914_0084.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
