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ran, in Commercial-road; the son of a coachman, aged 7
months,was run over by a Hansom cab, which was crossing the
road in Chapel-street, Belgrave-square. A boy, at No. 77,
Sutherland-street, aged 3 years, was wounded on the scalp
by the crook of a baker's barrow, on which he was swinging,
falling on him. A rivetter, aged 19, was drowned in the
Serpentine, Hyde Park, while bathing; and a hairdresser,
aged 22, fell into the river Thames, Grosvenor-road. Two
infants, aged 2 and 3 months, respectively, were suffocated
when in bed with their parents, the former at No. 60,
Green-street, Grosvenor-square; and the latter at No. 3,
"Westmoreland-place, Pimlico; an infant of 6 months by
turning over on her face, when in bed, at Royal Oak-place,
Elizabeth-street; another, of 4 months, when feeding from
a bottle, at No. 54, Eccleston-place; and the daughter of a
physician, aged 4 years, was choked at dinner, and died two
hours after, at No. 17, Green-street, Grosvenor-square. A
gentleman, aged 60, residing at No. 5, Chesham-place, fell
from his horse, and died from the effects 9 months afterwards.
A man, aged 55, at No. 37, New Bond-street, who
suffered from disease of the brain and bed sores, after a
railway accident. An infant of 10 months, at No. 28,
Rutland-street, had his spine ruptured, caused by hanging
between the seat and rail of a child's chair, in which he
had been left sitting. A bricklayer, aged 57, from congestion
of the brain, through falling down stairs at No. 88,
St. George's-mews. A labourer, aged 26, whose lung was
injured by a slab when at work; and the son of a cabdriver,
aged 2 years, of Cambridge-terrace, from concussion
of the brain, by falling in the passage of No. 13,
Effingham-street, and striking his head against the door
bolt. The wife of a chimney sweep, aged 30, died in the
Workhouse, Mount-street; of hcemorrhage from a wound
inflicted by her husband. A newly-born infant was found
strangled with braid in the area of No. 6 Park-lane. A