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and the son of a photographer in Oxford-street, residing
in a house of which the drainage was excessively out of
order.
The deaths from bronchitis, only 13, and the total
mortality from lung disease only 26 testify to the season.
In the winter quarter they have been so many as 150.
Amongst the accidental deaths, we notice three from
burns, two of them amongst our own parishioners;—viz.,
the daughter of a labourer, one year old, at Robert's-buildings,
Ebury-street, whose clothes were found on fire, no
evidence how; a maid-servant of 21, in Lupus-street,
whose clothes caught fire through a lucifer-match which had
been thrown on the ground, and a girl of 8, from Stanleybridge,
daughter of a labourer, whose clothes caught fire
from a candle. One boy of 8, son of a labourer, was
found in a stable with his skull fractured by the kick of a
horse. A child of 2 was knocked down and run over by a
cart. A boy of 9, had his leg fractured by a waggonwheel
which passed over it in St. George's-road. One
man died of a wound of the arm inflicted by a machine
in the Great Exhibition. There were two suicides.
Respecting the infants' deaths, the body of one was
found in the Grosvenor-dock, and the jury at the inquest
found by a verdict that it was still-born. This induces us
to repeat what we have said before, viz., that the children
whose bodies are found in the streets, the park, or the
water of the Sepentine or Thames, must not be assumed
to be all murdered. Some of them are undoubtedly stillborn;—some
murdered—some so decomposed when found
that it is impossible to say what may have been the mode
of death ; but most certainly in many cases the discovery
of the body is evidence only of the simple fact, that the
parents were too poor to bury a still-born child, and took