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The monthly returns of transferable deaths for
warded by the Somerset House authorities contain particulars
of 354 deaths; these include, in addition to
the deaths in public institutions, the names of 15 inhabitants
of Bethnal Green who have died or were found
drowned in various parts of London. They were :—
1. A baby, aged eight months, of Globe Road,
who was found dead in bed at Lichfield Road, Bow.
The cause was found to be a spasm of the glottis.
2. A woman, aged 74 years, of Old Ford
Road, died at High Street, Homerton, from
pneumonia.
3. A school boy, aged eight years, of Thorold
Street, was drowned in the Regent's Canal (Shoreditch)
while bathing.
4. An infant, aged two years, of Ravenscroft
Street, died at a surgery in Hackney Road, from
lacerated lungs, after being run over by a brewer's
dray.
5. A druggist's assistant, aged 41 years, of
Florida Street, died at Artillery Lane, Spitalfields,
from heart failure supervening on interstitial pneumonia.
6. A school girl, aged 13 years, of Burnside
Street, died at High Street, Homerton, from tubercular
enteritis and peritonitis.
7. An infant, aged two years, of Cambridge
Circus, died at Adley Street, Hackney, from shock