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7. A printer's labourer, aged 36, from 105, Old
Bethnal Green Road, was found drowned in the River Lea.
8. A French polisher, aged 50, from Sweet Apple
Square, died at Hill Street, Finsbury, from Hœmoptysis
and phthisis.
9. The fourteen months old male child of a telephone
operator died at Glassford Street, Streatham, from Congenital
syphilis.
10. A clerk, aged 32, of Scott Street, died in City
Road, from Hcemoptysis and phthisis.
11. A carman, aged 18, hanged himselt at Wormwood
Scrubbs Prison.
12. A watchmaker, aged 66, from Bonner Road, was
found dead in the Poplar portion of Victoria Park. He
had heart disease.
Total registered deaths 2,243
Sudden deaths outside Borough 12
Deaths in Institutions outside Borough 385 2,640
Non-residents :—
Sudden deaths of strangers 8
Deaths of strangers in Institutions 435 443
Net total 2,197
The deaths of twelve persons ordinarily resident in
Bethnal Green together with the 385 deaths in Institutions
make a total of 397; and after adding these
to the number actually registered in the Borough and
subtracting the 443 non-residents there remains a net
total of 2,197.