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The seven weeks old daughter of a clerk residing in
Mile End died from convulsions at 21, Theydon Road.
A bricklayer aged 52 residing at Lower Edmonton
died in Victoria Park Lavatory from Heart Disease.
A labourer of Forest Gate, aged 35 was knocked
down and decapitated by a light engine on the Great
Eastern Railway near St. John Street Arch.
The four months old son of a Clapton Clerk died in
Goldsmith's Row from Bronchitis; and the two year old
daughter of a porter residing in Islington died from
Marasmus in the Hackney Road; both these children
were on their way to the Queen's Hospital for children.
A Painter aged 57 of Leatherdale Street, committed
suicide by throwing himself under a train at Globe Road
Station.
A Hackney Cabinet Maker who was suffering from
Phthisis died in Globe Road from Hœmorrhage.
As none of these 310 persons resided in Bethnal
Green during life, their deaths must be struck out
from the number returned by Registrars. Rut in
addition to the deaths actually registered in Bethnal
Green I receive monthly, from Somerset House, lists
of Bethnal Green residents who have died in various
parts of London; these include particulars of 379
deaths in various Metropolitan Hospitals, and also of
of twelve Bethnal Green people who died sudden or
violent deaths in various parts of London and upon
whom Coroner's Inquests were held:—