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Prostate and Male Bladder 4
Lung and Mediastinum 4
Bones 3
Brain 2
INQUESTS.
Inquests numbered 247. Fourteen persons committed
suicide and 58 others died violent or sudden deaths.
A house-painter, aged 59, died from General Paralysis
which in the opinion of the Coroner's Jury, was the result
of chronic lead-poisoning. An Engineer suffering from
gout died from an overdose of Colchicum, self-administered.
There was only one uncertified death, that of a
premature infant aged 15 minutes; the case was reported
to the Coroner, who did not consider an inquest necessary.
SUICIDES.
There were fourteen of these:—Five men and one
woman hanged themselves, two men cut their throats and
one other drowned himself, a man suffocated himself with
coal gas, three others took poison (one each carbolic acid,
spirit of salt and oxalic acid); two women also took poison,
one selecting spirit of salt, the other oxalic acid.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS,
1890 to 1903.
No application for exemption was received in respect
of any premises during the year.