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2. A mechanical engineer, aged 75, of Old Ford
Road, died whilst on a visit to Hackney. The cause
of death was nephritis and uraemia.
3. A biscuit baker, aged 50, of Coventry
Street, died in Commercial Road from heart failure
supervening upon lobar pneumonia.
4. A boot trimmer, aged 73, of Abingdon
Buildings, died at Well Street, Hackney, from pericarditis
with effusion of fluid.
5. A labourer, aged 63, of Old Ford Road,
died in an electric tramcar at Woolwich. The
cause of death was syncope, due to atheroma of
the coronary arteries.
6. A carman, aged 42, of the Oval, Hackney
Road, died of dilated heart at a timber wharf at
Southfields.
7. A French polisher, aged 24, of Barnsley
Houses, was found drowned in the River Thames
off York Place, Battersea.
8. A labourer, aged 21, of Burgoyne Road,
died at Wellington Road, Bromley. Death was
due to syncope said to have been caused by the
excitement of singing in a crowded room on a close
night.
9. A carman's widow, aged 56, of Lansdell
Place, was found dead at Barrow's Buildings,
Devonshire Street, Stepney. The cause of death
was haemorrhage into the cerebellum.
10. A shoe-maker, aged 68, of Wharncliffe