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The next 5 classes which include the Malformations, the
Premature Decay and Atrophy of Children, with Sudden
Deaths and Old Age, caused a fatality of 194.
The Violent Deaths, the last in the classification, comprised
58.
Juries were summoned on the deaths of 76; of whom
the children (16 Boys and 19 Girls) numbered 35, and the
adults (27 males and 14 females) 41. The verdicts returned,
read as below: — "Scalded," 1; by "Train of Eastern
Counties Railway," 1; " Fracture of the Skull," 1;
"Wound of Head," 1; "Coup de Soleil," 1; "Effusion on the
Brain," 1; " Fungus Hcematodes attacking scalp, side of face
ear and eye," 1; " Poison, from an infusion of herbs," 1;
"Wilfully Murdered," 2 (Infants Newly Born, and thrown
into Canal and Bonner's Fields); by " Excessive Drinking," 2 ;
"Exhaustion from insufficient nourishment," 3; by " CutThroats,"
3; "Hanging," 4; "Falls," 5; by "Accidental"
and "Suicidal Drowning," 6; "Found Dying," or "Dead,"
8; "Accidentally Suffocated," 15; and by "Natural" and
"Sudden," Deaths, 20 more. Those who committed suicide and
thus ''abandoned the post in which God placed them," were
11, and consisted of a Female Unknown, a Cabinet Maker's
Wife, a Shoe Maker's Wife, a Porter, a Warehouseman, a
Dealer in Poultry, and 4 Weavers. The quantum is somewhat
less than our ratio by population, for " the tendency to
suicide is, in the metropolis in 100,000 persons, 12.6." The
youngest of the suicides was 31, and the eldest 79.
The Deaths in the Institutions of the Parish happened
thus:—84 Males and 79 Females in the Workhouse; 24
Males and 20 Females in the Lunatic Asylum; 16 Males
and 10 Females in the Consumption Hospital; 1 Male and
2 Females in the Trinity Ground; 1 Male in Parmiter's
Alms Houses; 1 Male at the Barracks in Globe Street; and
4 Males and 3 Females in the Model Lodgings in Columbia