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that of London generally (3.6) or than that of any one of
the large towns, except Liverpool, which was also 4.4.
I have only the particulars for the first three quarters of
the year. In these three quarters there were 51 violent
deaths, 25 in the first quarter, 19 in the second, and 7 in
the third: of these, 41 were from accident or negligence,
3 were from homicide, and 7 from suicide.
Among the deaths from accident or negligence, there
were 7 from burns, 4 from scalds, viz., 2 of infants, one of
a boy from upsetting a saucepan, and one of a man who
was scalded by steam from a boiler tap; 3 infants were
suffocated while in bed with their parents, and 4 infants
were "found dead;" 6 deaths were attributed to accidental
drowning, though in some of these cases there was no evidence
how they came into the water. One of these was
that of a boy who "fell out of a boat he was steering," and
another that of a man (23) who was drowned "while
swimming, in attempting to save a boy who had fallen into
the water." Two people were run over in the streets and
killed; there was 1 death from "syncope under the
influence of chloroform," and 1 from accidental poisoning,
—that of a woman (age 36) who took some carbolic acid in
mistake for beer,—and a woman (28) died from "exhaustion
from inflammation of stomach, caused by some vegetable
irritant poison, combined with shock from miscarriage—no
evidence how poison came into the stomach." A man was
killed by the falling of part of the ruins of the Pantechnicon
upon him, and a woman from endeavouring to enter
a train while in motion.
The 3 deaths from homicide were all cases of wilful
murder of newly-born infants. Of the 7 suicides, 3
(of men) were by means of pistol-shots; 2 men drowned