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3. The three-weeks-old baby of a French polisher of
Long Street, Shoreditch, suffering from whooping cough
and bronchitis; died from convulsions in Virginia Road,
4. A woman, aged 25 years, and her baby boy, aged
four years, from Leyton, were suffocated in a burning
house in Green Street.
5. The six-months-old baby of a fish curer from
Dalston, died in Hackney Road, near the Queen's Hospital.
He was suffering from broncho-pneumonia.
6. A charwoman, aged 43 years, from Hanbury
Street, Stepney, strangled herself during a fit of insanity
in a cell at the Bethnal Green Road Police Station.
7. A commerical traveller, aged 53 years, from
Tottenham, died in Bethnal Green Road from syncope.
He had suddenly ruptured an aortic aneurism.
8. The six-months-old son of an iron-plate worker,
from Poplar, died at Gretton Houses from convulsions,
set up by tubercular meningitis.
9. A warehouseman, aged 21 years, from Tottenham,
was killed in Cambridge Road. He was crushed by a
brewer's motor lorry.
The monthly returns from Somerset House contain
particulars of 364 deaths of Bethnal Green inhabitants,
in Public Institutions in various parts of London; also
of eleven persons who died sudden or violent deaths
whilst temporarily absent from home. Coroners'
inquests were held upon these last, and the causes of
death are stated below:—
1. A baby, aged three weeks from Alias Road, died
from diarrhoea at Spaniards' Road, Hampstead.