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10. A chair maker, aged 57 years, from Old Bethnal
Road, was found drowned in the River Lea, near Robin
Hood Inn, Hackney.
11. The seven-years-old son of a labourer, of Felix
Street, was suffocated by drowning in the Regent's Canal
near Cambridge Road Bridge. He had been playing on
the towing path with some other boys.
By the instructions of the Local Government Board
the term "Non-resident" has in the past included only
such persons as have been brought into the district on
account of sickness or infirmity, and have died in Public
Institutions therein. Strictly speaking, therefore, only
396 deaths of non-residents should have been excluded,
and no account should have been taken of the ten
strangers who died suddenly in Bethnal Green Public
places; but as eleven of our inhabitants were similarly
unfortunate in other parts of London, whilst away from
home, these almost exactly balance the stranger deaths,
and the total figure remains practically unaltered. It is
therefore immaterial for statistical purposes, in this
instance, whether they are included or not.
New tables have been designed by the Local Government
Board, and the two classes of non-resident deaths
will in future reports be included under the heading of
"transferable deaths,"