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2. A van-salesman, aged 38, of Tooting Broadway,
who suffered from Pulmonary Phthisis ; he died from
Hoemorrhage at Oxford House.
3 The son, aged eleven, of a general dealer from
Mile End ; he was run over by a steam waggon in Grove
Road, and died from broken ribs and lacerated lung.
4. A woman, aged 38, the wife of a fruiterer from
Shoreditch, died in Emma Street from the effects of a
corrosive poison (Hydrochloric Acid).
5. The infant son of a carpenter from Walthamstow
died in a tramcar in Hackney Road on the way to the
Queen's Hospital.
6. A retired box-maker from Edmonton, aged 73,
died from valvular disease of the heart in Mount Street
7. A man, occupation unknown, aged 35, of
Braintree in Essex, was found drowned in Duckett's
Canal near the Skew Bridge.
The monthly returns of transferable deaths
forwarded by the Somerset House Authorities contain
particulars of 414 deaths ; these include, in addition to
the deaths in Public Institutions, the names of six
inhabitants of Bethnal Green who have died or were
found drowned in various parts of London. They
were:—
1. A publisher's packer of Warner Place, aged 67,
who died on the premises of the Oxford University Press,
Amen Corner, E C., from Hoemorrhage due to rupture of
an Aneurism of the Aorta.
2. A railway porter of Pollard's Row, aged 31, was
run over by a locomotive engine at Broad Street Station ;
he died from fracture of the spine.