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deaths of 356 persons ordinarily resident in Bethnal
Green but who died in Public Institutions outside our
boundaries; also of fourteen inhabitants of Bethnal
Green who died suddenly in various parts of London
and upon whose bodies Coroner's Inquests were held.
The following are the particulars:—A drunken
carman was suffocated by his own vomit while lying
upon some straw at Orange Mews, Mile End; a teacher
of Hebrew, who suffered from heart disease, died from
syncope following exposure to cold at 85, Kingsland
road; a man aged 56 died from heart disease at 59,
Mare Street; a man aged 51 hanged himself at Dunloe
Street, Shoreditch; a man aged 21 was fighting in
Middlesex Street, City, he fell, and was run over and
killed by a passing van; a woman aged 66 died in
Mansell Street from heart disease; a man aged 53 shot
himself with a pistol at 52, Commercial Street.
The following persons were found drowned:—
In the Thames—A female aged 69; a male aged 43.
In the River Lea—Males aged respectively 43, 68
7, 28 (a suicide).
In the Regent's Canal—A male aged 13.
These fourteen, together with the 356 Hospital
deaths form a total of 370, and after adding these and
substracting the 303 non-residents, there remains a net
total of 2418.