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of houses; a labourer fell through a skylight; a bricklayer
fell from a ladder; another from a wall at the International
Exhibition; a bargeman fell into the hold of a barge; and
a woman, aged 37, fell into the street whilst cleaning a
window; all these were engaged in labours more or less
hazardous. But some risk attends recreation and the quietest
occupations. A gentleman fell from his horse; a schoolmistress
in Trellick-terrace, and a carpenter, fell down
stairs ; a boy of 4 fell from a loft in which he was playing;
a strong man fell whilst wrestling, and a feeble woman of
78, when walking in the street; and all these died from
broken bones.
Conversely, 7 persons of all ages;— children of 2
and 5, men in the prime of life, and old men—died from
being knocked down by saddle horses, broughams, or drays:
I man was killed by a cart which fell on him at the South
Kensington Museum, and a boy of 2 from an injury inflicted
no one knows how.
Four children were burned or scalded to death; 1 from a
bonfire; 1 from a common grate; 1 by upsetting a washintub;
and 1, lamentably enough, from a dangerous toy, a little
model steamboat worked by a spirit lamp.
Two children were drowned in the Grosvenor Canal;
1 suffocated in bed with its parents; a girl of 21 suffocated
after a fit of epilepsy; 1 newly born found in Hyde-park,
and supposed to have been murdered.
Four persons attempted suicide when insane, and died
sooner or later from the act; 2 women by jumping into the
Serpentine; 1 by throwing herself from a window; and a
man by hanging.
displacement of population in belgravia.
Displacements of a population are of course most necessary
to be considered in all estimates of mortality. Hence