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Twenty-seven deaths from accidents or negligence appear
on the register, and although 13 were deaths of nonparishioners
in St. George's Hospital, still the remaining
14 is a large number of parishioners for one quarter.
One parishioner was killed by a fall at the International
Exhibition, one other, a builder, by a fall; one man by fighting,
8 by accidents with horses and carriages.
One child was scalded by pulling a cup of tea over himself
; a woman died from falling when drunk; a carpenter
was killed by a plumb bob which fell on him; one woman
fell from a window sill on which she was sitting; a girl of 17,
upset from a boat, was crushed between a barge and Putney
Bridge; a waiter at a tavern fell with a bottle, which broke
and cut his wrist; a gardener died through falling from a
tree.
Two boys Were drowned in the Thames, and a boy of 12
whilst bathing in the Serpentine.
One woman poisoned herself with bitter almonds ; and a
man hanged himself.
One newly-born infant was found under a tree in Hyde
Park with a cord round its neck; it was taken to St. George's
Hospital and died in two hours; another was found dead,
and was said by the Coroner's jury to have been suffocated;
one which was said to have been still-born was found in the
Grosvenor canal. This last was not legally entitled to
registry, as a child not born alive has no existence in law.
A child four months old was suffocated whilst in bed with
its parents in Brown-street.