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A boy aged 13 fell from a log of wood into the water
when at play at the Water Works Docks, Pimlico, and a
newly-born infant was found suffocated while in bed with its
parent at the "Workhouse, Mount-street.
We record one case of murder of a woman by her husband,
who beat her on her head with a bar of iron. She was
a non-parishioner, and died iu St. George's Hospital.
Three cases of suicide were registered, namely, — one
of a man in South Molton-street, who shot himself in the head
with a brace of pistols; another of a woman aged 65, who
hanged herself to the iron rod of a skylight; and the third
of a man aged 27, who was found in the Serpentine.
Among the deaths from causes not specified or ill-defined,
were those of two infants found in Hyde-park, of one in the
enclosure of Eaton-square, another in the enclosure of Belgrave-square,
and a fifth at the Pimlico Pier, Thames Bank.
One of the infants in Hyde-park was clearly recognized by
the jury as having been still-born and cast out,—not murdered.
A boy of 4 years and 9 months died on the 9th June,
in Chapel-mews, Robert-street, of "Choleraic diarrhoea."
This led to an inspection of the dwelling, a report on which
was laid before the Sanitary Committee. It consisted of a
few utterly unventilated rooms and water-closet over a farrier's
shop, and in consequence of the action of the Committee
is now disused as a dwelling.
On the 9th June, an illegitimate female child, aged six
months, died in Clarges-street, of ulcerated prolapsus ani; a
most unusual cause of death.