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inhabitants has become very materially lessened. This
result, it need scarcely be observed, is indicative of the
achievement of considerable success by the extensive
sanitary measures which have been carried out during the
period referred to.
Inquests, Violent Deaths, t&c.— 31 Inquests were held
during the year, with the following results :
Natural Deaths from Disease - - 21
Deaths from Violence Accidental 8 9
Homicidal 1
Not specified 1
The verdicts in the cases of violence, &c., were the following,
copied literatim;
"Found drowned ; no marks of violence; no proof how
she came to her death,"
" Drowned by falling out of a boat."
" Mortal injuries by falling off a scaffold accidentally,
2½ hours."
" Drowned ; fell into the river Thames accidentally,
about a ¼ of an hour."
" Fracture of cervical vertebra by falling down stairs
when drunk, accidental."
" Drowned, accidentally falling off a barge."
" Accidentally drowned bathing, 4 days."
" Scalded glottis, upon drinking boiling water from a
kettle, accidental, 27 hours.''
" Wilful murder against some person or persons
unknown, by some compression of the ribs."
" Found dead in a nude state."
There were 4 deaths only registered which were uncertified
by Medical testimony. Of the 31 deaths on which
inquests were held, in 8 only were post-mortem examinations
made to determine the causes of death; and the latter, it
would seem from an examination of the register, have been in
some instances assumed on mere conjecture, or in error, or
not arrived at at all; as in the case of the last verdict
recorded above, wherein the nearest approach to an elucidation
of the cause of death was found in the somewhat
remote but self-evident fact of the nudity of the deceased