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DEATHS.
The weekly returns of the Local Registrars forwarded
to me shew particulars of 2,351 deaths in Bethnal
Green, indicating a crude death rate of 18.03. Amongst
the deaths so registered are included those of 295 nonresidents,
who died whilst under treatment in Bethnal
Green Public Institutions; eight other persons, also nonresidents,
died violent or sudden deaths while temporarily
within the boundaries of the Borough; a
Coroner's Inquest was held in each case. They were:—
The librarian of the Bethnal Green Free Library who
resided at Dalston and died at the library from syncope
and pleuritic effusion; a shop assistant of Notting
Hill Gate shot himself with a pistol at Cambridge
Heath Station; a hairdresser from Manchester died
at 284, Brick Lane, he suffered from heart disease and
fainted from excitement in the street; an aged warehouse
porter from Walthamstow died from bronchitis
and kidney disease at 54, Turin Street; a bandsawyer
from Hackney was found drowned in the Regent's
Canal; a dock labourer from Commercial Road was
chased out of Victoria Park by some boys and died
from excitement and heart disease in Old Ford Road;
a female school teacher from Hackney drowned herself
in the canal; a porter, aged sixteen, residing in Hackney,
died after a blow over the heart at 250, Cambridge
Road; he suffered from heart disease.
For purposes of correction the deaths of these 303
non-residents must be struck out of the number actually
returned by the registrars. On the other hand, I have
received information from Somerset House of the