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were found dead within the boundaries of the
Borough. They were:-
1. A boy aged three from Regent's Row, Shoreditch,
who was run over in Hackney Road, and who died from
shock and ruptured lung.
2. The baby, aged five months, of a woman living at
Monier Road, Poplar, who was visiting a friend in Warley
Street and whilst there the baby died from Enteritis.
3. A painter aged 43, from West Ham was killed by
a train at Hemming Street railway bridge.
4. A French Polisher aged 34, of Perry's Place,
Shoreditch, committed suicide by shooting himself in
Bethnal Green Road.
5. An Engineer aged 54, from Brunswick Street,
Shoreditch, died suddenly at Sewardstone Road Saw
Mills, from heart disease.
6. A widow aged 67, from Key Street, Stepney, died
in Bethnal Green Road, from ruptured heart, the result of
fatty degeneration.
7. A Draper's Assistant aged 57, died at the Bethnal
Green Police Station from internal hoemorrhage; he was
found to have ruptured an Aortic Aneurism; his home
was in Whitechapel.
The names and previous residences of these 399
persons have been furnished by the local registrars to
the Somerset House authorities, and have been by
them distributed to the various Metropolitan Boroughs
in which the deceased persons ordinarily resided.
These deaths are therefore struck out from those
actually returned to me. In addition to the deaths