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over him; and a boy, aged 10 years, was knocked down and
run over by a waggon.
Two children were burnt to death and another suffocated
in the same room by inhaling the hot air and smoke, during
the absence of the parents; an infant of 4 months was accidentally
suffocated when in bed with its parents in Kinnerton-street;
a doctor of medicine, aged 23, was poisoned
by an overdose of morphia, taken medicinally ; a bootmaker,
aged 45, drowned himself in the Serpentine River, Hyde
Park; and a boy, aged 9, was drowned in the River Thames,
at Thames Bank;—when at play he fell from a barge.
Seven persons died from other injuries, two of whom
were non-parishioners, in St. George's Hospital. Five deaths
happened in Belgravia; one of a girl, aged 4 years, who injured
her brain when accidentally falling from a staircasewindow
in Moreton-street; another of a woman, aged 69,
who fell downstairs in Westbourne-street; a barman, aged
34, whose body was mutilated by the wheels of railway
carriages; a boy, aged 14, injured in Eaton-square by a
scaffold-pole striking him; and an engine-driver, aged 41,
who lived at 22, Westmoreland-place, and fell from a scaffold.
A captain in the militia, aged 47, committed suicide, when
insane, by hanging himself in his neck-scarf tied to a bedrail.
Among the deaths from causes not specified or ill-defined
are those of 3 infants: one was found dead in a urinal at
Charles-street, Berkeley-square, another died immediately
after birth in Stockbridge-terrace, and the third was found
in one of the enclosures in Eaton-square.