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Twenty-one deaths were due to suffocation whilst in bed with
parents, the dates and days of the week being as follows :
12th January Tuesday
1st February Monday
5th „ Friday
7th ,, Sunday
10th March Wednesday
10th April Saturday
18th ,, Sunday
21st ,, Wednesday
24th „ Saturday
23rd June Wednesday
28th ,, Monday.
1st July Thursday.
20th „ Tuesday.
7th September Tuesday.
2nd October Saturday.
10th ,, Sunday.
12th „ Tuesday.
10th November Wednesday.
15th „ Monday.
21 st ,, Sunday.
24th ,, Wednesday.
Differently arranged:—
Sunday 4
Monday 3
Tuesday 4
Wednesday 5
Thursday 1
Friday 1
Saturday 3
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Social Position of Persons Dying During 1897.
Number. Per Cent.
Nobility and Gentry 16 0.6
Professional Class 26 1.0
Middle and Trading Class 133 5.1
Industrial and Labouring Class 2,445 93.3
2,620 100.0
Water
Supply for
London.
This most important subject, more especially with
reference to the health and sanitary condition of the
inhabitants of this vast metropolis, among whom of
course are included the many thousands of persons who are
inhabitants of Battersea, is now engaging general attention. In
my report for 1895 the subject was very fully discussed, and as the