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150 patients, including from premature birth 1.3, teething 6,
atrophy and debility 19, water in the head 9, tabes mesenterica
10, convulsions 13, and consumption 80.
Lung diseases proved fatal to 93 persons.
Among the accidental deaths, there were 11 from fractures
and contusions; one of a woman, aged 70, who resided
in Ebury-street, and was knocked down by a horse in
Elizabeth-street. An infant, aged 1 year and 8 months,
had its skull crushed by a cart-wheel running over it in
Burton-street, and died in St. George's Hospital. A boy,
aged 4, residing in Westbourne-street, died from laceration
of the brain, through a fall into a cutting of the Metropolitan
Railway works behind Westbourne-street; and a painter,
aged 58, from Flask-lane, died from fractured skull, through
falling from a scaffold in Grosvenor-place; 8 non-parishioners
died from similar causes in the same hospital.
One non-parishioner in the hospital died from wounds,
and 5 from burns and scalds.
The wife of a gardener, aged 51, died from laudanum,
at the deputy-ranger's lodge, but it was not proved whether
the poison was taken accidentally or by design. A housemaid,
aged 16, a woman, aged 60, and a lady's maid, aged
26, were found drowned in the Serpentine, in Hyde Park.
A newly-born infant was found murdered on a doorstep
in Lower Grosvenor-street.
A gentleman, aged 42, residing in Albemarle-street,
committed suicide, when insane, by wounding himself in the
throat with a razor, and a dispensing assistant, aged 30,
from taking prussic acid, in Kensington Gardens. A manservant,
aged 24, and a plumber's labourer, aged 47, drowned
themselves, when insane, in the Serpentine. The last case
of suicide was that of a general servant, aged 25, who
hanged herself by a rope to a gas-pipe in an area in Lupusstreet.