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point to children who died a natural death and then were
thrown away like dead dogs to avoid the trouble and expense
of burial.
"Male newly born" found in Hyde Park; and after a
post mortem and inquest, death attributed to pressure on
the head during severe labour.
"Male newly born" found on the area steps of a house
in George-street, Hanover-square, which had also died a
natural death from pressure during labour.
Whilst there are yet two others showing the results of
carelessness—a child of 3 months suffocated in bed with
its nurse, at 8, Mount-row, another of 5 months, at 11,
Robert's-buildings.
Deaths by burns and scalds also exhibit the natural
consequences of carelessness. A girl one year old pulled
a cup of tea over her; another had her bed-gown set on
fire by a candle; a girl of nine set her clothes on fire by
reaching something from a chimney-piece; a young woman
of 22 and a girl of 9 set their skirts on fire at a grate; a
girl of 2 is burned nobody knows how.
Amongst the remaining accidental deaths, we may
notice one due to a fall from a window-cleaning machine,
which was not strong enough for its purpose, and one to
a fall from a parapet, whilst cleaning windows. Two
persons were knocked down and killed by vans, one by a
cab, and one by the starting of a horse he was holding;—a
young woman, a non-parishioner, brought to St. George's
Hospital, who had been thrown from a cart, because the
horse stepped into a hole in the road near Putney;—and
an old pensioner found insensible, with ribs broken, and a
wound in the head, doubtless because thrown down by
some vehicle. The deaths of two parishioners and one
stranger occurred, from falling down stairs. One boy was
drowned by falling from a barge, and another by fallingfrom