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Deaths from Natural Causes 14
Deaths from Violence, viz.:—
Concussion 1
Suffocation 4
Run over by van 1
Accidental Burning 1 13
Poisoning 2
Crushed by Machinery 1
Drowning 3
Cut throat 1
Suicidal Hanging 1 3
Jumped into a copper of boiling water 1
Execution 2
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The inquests were not so numerous in the past as in
the preceding year by eleven. The deaths from violence
were two less than in the previous year. Uncertified
deaths were three more, viz., eight in number, and were so
many instances, therefore, in which death may have resulted
from other than natural causes. The remedy for
this condition of possible insecurity to human life is to
be found (as has been submitted in these Reports for
many years) in the employment of medical investigation
in every case in which the cause of death has not been
certified by a registered medical practitioner. (See
Report for 1865 and following Reports.)
Sanitary Proceedings.—The principal Sanitary proceedings
of the past year are enumerated in Table VI. in
the Appendix. They are seen to have been of an extensive
and important nature, especially those relating to
the inspection of houses and the remedying of their
sanitary defects. As might be anticipated from the
increased prevalence of epidemic diseases, the disinfection
of houses was more largely employed; and, it is
gratifying to record, with such success that in the whole
165 houses so dealt with one instance only occurred in