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Found dead, unknown, newly born, 3
Starved (both infants), verdict, wilful murder 2
Burns and scalds 4
Accidentally run over in the streets 2
Other accidents by falls, &c 4
Found drowned, with no marks of violence 4
Accidentally drowned 5
Misadventure—drinking poisons, boiling water, &c. 4
Natural deaths from diseases (sudden) 5
Suicides by drowning and poison, whilst under mental
derangement 2
Total 45
Of these 45 Inquests, 11 were held upon the remains of
infants and young children, who were shown by the evidence
to have met with violent deaths, either by accident
or design. In addition to this large number of Inquests,
there were the deaths of as many as 39 infants and children
registered without any medical certificate of the cause of
death. There were also 9 adults similarly registered.
Here there are nearly 50 deaths in one Sub-district tested
by no enquiry whatever. That the registration of deaths
without medical certificates is an evil of the greatest
magnitude, few will deny; that the practice can be much
longer permitted one can scarcely believe possible.
Summary of Sanitary Proceedings, Removal of Nuisances,
Seizure of Unwholesome Food, &c.—In the column
of Table VI. Appendix, relating to Battersea, will be
found the usual. summary of the year's sanitary proceedings.
Although it is by no means satisfactory to contemplate so
high a death-rate as this Sub-district unfortunately exhibits,
there can be but little doubt we should have had
to deplore a still higher one, but for the great attention
that has been paid to the sanitary requirements of the
locality, as exemplified in the unremitting inspection of