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The statistical department at Somerset House, to
which the returns of the local registrars are forwarded,
acts as a clearing house for London and distributes all
Institutional and sudden deaths to the various Metropolitan
Boroughs in which the deceased persons
resided when alive; by this arrangement I receive
monthly, lists of Bethnal Green residents who have
died in various parts of London. The lists of 1908
contain particulars of 385 deaths in Institutions, and
also of twelve Bethnal Green people who died sudden
or violent deaths whilst temporarily absent from home
and upon whom Coroner's Inquests were held. These
were:—
1. A silversmith, aged 66, from Alias Road, was
found dead in Devonshire Street, Mile End; he had heart
disease.
2. A boy, aged 8, from New Tyssen Street, was
found drowned in the Regent's Canal.
3. A shoemaker's widow, aged 73, from Gretton
Houses, died in Goldsmith's Row, from broken ribs and
ruptured lung ; she had been run over by a horse and cart.
4. A night watchman, aged 57, from Helen's Place,
Green Street, died at Lewis Trust Buildings, Islington,
from heart disease.
5. A baby, aged four months, from Selby Street, died
from Infective Enteritis, at Ashenden Road, Hackney.
6. Another baby, aged three months (a premature
twin), from Diss Street, died from convulsions at the
Baby's Home, Brunswick Street, Shoreditch,