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at St. George's Hospital, and there were 68 deaths from
lung diseases, besides 60 from consumption.
Among the accidental deaths we notice one of a labourer
from fracture of the skull, which was struck by a screw
propeller at the International Exhibition. Another'died
from a fractured thigh and other injuries through falling
from a scaffold at No. 23, Grosvenor-square. A child was
killed by wounds in the groin, received when in the arms of
her father, who fell while crossing Oxford-street. Three
deaths occurred from poison, one from opium taken during
intoxication, a second from swallowing an embrocation in
mistake for medicine, and a third from apoplexy induced
by morphia, but there was no evidence to shew whether
it was taken accidentally or not. The patient was found
insensible in Charlotte-street, Pimlico. A child aged 1
year was scalded to death by hot tea from a pot pulled
over by himself on to his chest and stomach at No. 2,
Robert-street, Pimlico. A boy aged 10 fell from a barge,
while playing, into the river Thames, Thames Bank.
Moreover 2 persons were found in the Serpentine without
evidence how they came there.
Among the violent deaths we observe that an infant
was found on the shore of the river Thames, Pimlico,
with a ligature round its head and mouth, another was
also found in Hyde Park strangled with ribbons.
Four deaths from suicide were registered, namely,
one of a man aged 52, who wounded himself in the throat
with a knife at No. 10, Little Chester-street, another of a
glazier, aged 37, who was discovered hanging by a cord
to the bough of a tree in Hyde Park, the third a women,
aged 35, who was found dead in the cellar at No. 90,
New Bond-street, after having strangled herself with a
cord, and the fourth a non-parishioner at St. George's