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Hanover Square 1871

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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years, died in St. George's Hospital, from bum of face,
throat and arms, having been found with his clothes on
fire in his mother's room, at No. 8, Passmore Street. A
carpenter, aged 40, died from spasm of the epiglottis, by
a piece of bread in the trachea. The son of a labourer,
aged 13, was drowned in the "lie bye," Grosvenor Row.
An infant, aged four months, was suffocated when in bed
with its mother, at No. 3, Cumberland Street. A newlyborn
infant was found with a ligature placed round its
neck near the ''Magazine," Hyde Park. Of the suicides,
a gentleman, aged 40, threw himself from a window at
the Albemarle Hotel, Albemarle Street, when insane, and
died in a cab near St. George's Hospital, from fractured
ribs, blade bone, and other injuries. A man servant,
at No. 22, Berwick Street, aged 33, poisoned himself by
morphia. A coachman, aged 56, wounded himself in the
throat, at No. 19, North Bruton Mews. A gardener, aged
48, wounded himself in the throat with a knife, at No. 57,
Gillingham Street. A woman, aged 45, drowned herself
in the Serpentine, Hyde Park. A nursery governess, aged
33, hung herself by a small rope to a peg in the wash-house.
The wife of a sub-inspector of government, aged 41, hung
herself by a scarf to a bed post. Of the 16 deaths from
causes not specified or ill-defined, were those of 9 infants,
"newly born," found in the Grosvenor Road Dock; on
the door step in Warwick Street; in the garden of No.
257, Vauxhall Bridge Road; Shepherd's Court, Upper
Brook Street; in the dust hole at No. 27, Eaton Place;
near the Police Station, Hyde Park; in the pan of a water
closet at Victoria Railway Station, and 2 in Hyde Park.
Sickness.
In presenting this subject, I have to acknowledge the
voluntary assistance rendered to me by Dr. Webb, Messrs.
E. .Jay, C. P. Ward, C. Connock, and S. R. Phillips.
The number of cases relieved by the Parochial and
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