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Inquests.
During the year 1894 there were held 58 inquests. The causes
which produced death were as follows:—
Natural causes 25
Pistol Shot Wound (suicide) 3
,, ,, „ (murder) 1
4
Drowning 4
Hanging (suicide) 1
Poison, carbolic acid (suicide) 2
„ morphine (suicide) 1
,, chloroform 1
4
Erysipelas following a blow 1
Burns 3
Cause not specified 1
Suffocation 1
Found dead—newly-bom child 1
Injuries received in a goods lift 1
„ „ from fall from a scaffold 1
„ „ „ „ wall 1
„ „ ,, jumping off roof of a
house (suicide) 1
Injuries received from jumping from a window
(suicide) 1
Injuries received from falling down 3
„ „ „ a fall from Waterloo
Bridge 1
Injuries received from falling downstairs 1
,, „ „ a cellar flap 1
,, „ „ being run over by a
train (suicide) 1
Injuries received from a fall from a van 1
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Notification of Infectious Disease.
The number of cases of infectious disease notified during the
year was much below that of the previous year, 1893, when they