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young man, aged 28, shot himself with a pistol, when
insane, in Hyde Park. A clerk, aged 42, committed suicide
in the same manner, near Apsley House. A labourer, aged
79, wounded himself in the throat, at No. 20, Effinghamstreet;
and a stone sawyer, aged 50, died in St. George's
Hospital, from the effects of wounds in his throat, inflicted
by himself, with a razor, at No. 3, Caledonia-street,
Pimlico. A youth, aged 19, poisoned himself with prussic
acid, in Hyde Park; and a wine merchant, aged 23, took
oxalic acid, at No. 7, Cumberland-street. Three men, aged
respectively 40, 45, and 63, drowned themselves in the river
Thames, Pimlico; a fourth in the Thames, near Chelsea
Hospital; a housemaid, aged 37, in the same manner, and
a young woman, aged 19, and the widow of a bricklayer,
aged 27, in the Serpentine, Hyde Park. An ostler, aged 45,
was found hanging from a tree, in Kensington Gardens; a
cabinet-maker, aged 18, from a rope on a beam in his workshop,
in Horse-shoe-yard, Brook-street; and the widow of a
farrier, aged 54, from a rope on the clock nail, at No. 1,
Brewer's-place, Brewer-street. Of the deaths from "causes
not specified or ill defined," 6 were those of newly-born infants,
found on the pavement in Gillingham-street, outside
the railings of Belgrave-square, in the Omnibus Yard,
Eccleston-place, Hyde Park, in a travelling bag at the
waiting room of the Victoria Railway Station, and in Kensington
Gardens, respectively.
Sickness.
In presenting this subject, I have to acknowledge the
voluntary assistance rendered to me by Drs. W. Griffith
and Webb, Messrs. E. Jay, C. P. Ward, C. Connock, and
S. Lee.
The number of cases relieved by the Parochial and
Dispensary Medical Officers in the Parish was 38,423. Of
these, 21,560 were patients at St. George's Hospital.