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balanced himself and fell from the roof of a house, fracturing
his skull; an inhabitant of Conduit-street, aged 62, died
from the effects of a fall at the Charing-cross Railway
Station.
An idiot of 18 died of broken thigh, through getting
entangled in bedding.
A bricklayer was poisoned by Burnett's disinfecting
fluid, which he mistook for gin.
Of the burns,—one was of a child a year old, who had
been playing with fusee matches;—a girl of 4, in Pimlico,
died from drinking scalding coffee from the spout of a coffee
pot; a girl of 4, from pulling a cup of scalding tea over
herself; a shoemaker's wife of 53, from a cinder falling on
her clothes; a girl of 4, from her clothes " igniting accidentally
;" a child of 7 months, it is not stated how.
The child of a baker, in George-street, Grosvenor-square,
aged 7 weeks, was suffocated in bed with its parents.
A young man of 21 was drowned in the Serpentine
whilst bathing; and a gentleman, aged 28, committed suicide
by means of the fumes of charcoal when insane; another,
aged 55, shot himself through the head with a pistol.
The four deaths from causes not specified or ill-defined,
are those of four infants, of which the Coroners' juries
hesitated to affirm that they had been murdered, or which
might have been born dead and cast away, such as a female
child newly born, found in St. George's-place; another in
Warwick-square ; and two in the Serpentine.
the sickness.
In the Hanover and May-fair sub-districts, the number
of persons who received medical relief from the Medical
Officers of the Parish, and of the Dispensary in Mountstreet,
and in the Sick Wards of the Workhouse, Mount-