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INQUESTS.
The Coroner held 258 Inquests at the Court in
Church Row upon the bodies Of 148 males and 110
females; 87 of them were infants aged less than twelve
months.
Ninety-six of the Inquests were upon persons who
had died violent deaths. Thirty-two of the infants
died from suffocation; twenty eight of these were
found dead in bed, one of them was suffocated by
another child. Three infants were suffocated at birth
and one was suffocated in a fit.
Twelve persons died from burns and scalds, four
were run over in the street and one on the Great
Eastern Railway.
There were two deaths under chloroform, administered
for the performance of a necessary operation.
SUICIDES.
These numbered sixteen, three were females and the
remainder were men. Seven of them took poison (four
oxalic acid, two spirits of salt and one bichromate of
potash, all these are drugs used for trade purposes and
easily obtainable). Four persons hanged themselves,
three perished by drowning, one man shot himself with
a revolver and another jumped out of a window. A
verdict of felo-de-se was returned in three cases.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Four deaths were registered without medical certificates
; all were cases of premature birth.