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scalds; four were run over in the street, and.one on the
Great Eastern Railway; another was crushed to death
by an engine.
There were three deaths under chloroform administered
for the performance of necessary operations.
SUICIDES.
These numbered sixteen, thirteen males and three
females. Two men cut their throats, two men and one
woman drowned themselves; two men hanged themselves;
one of these was a printer's labourer doing time
at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Eight persons took
poison, one man bi-chromate of potash, two others
oxalic acid, and another "Rough on Rats," a man and
a woman each took spirit of salt, another woman
carbolic acid and lastly a man suffocated himself by
inhaling coal gas.
The man who shot himself in the Bethnal Green
Road, and upon whom an inquest was held, was not an
inhabitant of the Borough ; he came from Shoreditch.
MANSLAUGHTER.
In two instances verdicts of Manslaughter were
returned. A glass-blower aged 36 died from fracture
of the skull inflicted by some person unknown and
a labourer died from a similar injury caused by a fall
after being struck in the street.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
No death was registered without a medical certificate
or the order of the Coroner.
BAKEHOUSES.
At the end of 1907 we had ninety-four bakehouses