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Deaths not
Certified.
The number of deaths not certified by a
registered medical practitioner was nineteen,
exactly the same number as in the preceding year.
Eleven were submitted to the Coroner, who decided that
in the respective circumstances an inquest was unnecessary;
the remaining eight cases were attended by
midwives, and not submitted to the Coroner or any
other authority, but registered as follows:—
Age 1 day .. Convulsions.
,, 11 hours .. Premature Birth.
„ 20 „ .. do.
„ 1 day .. do.
„ 1 „ .. do.
,, 2 ,, .. do.
„ 12 hours .. Convulsions.
,, 22 ,, .. Exhaustion after protracted labour.
Inquests were held by the Coroner in sixty instances,
in addition to investigation of the nineteen cases mentioned
above.
Seven per cent. of the total deaths were included in
the total number of seventy-nine cases which were therefore
not registered in the usual manner by medical
certificate.
inquests. Sixty inquests were held in 1886, a considerable
increase on the number of the preceding year—
forty-five—and much above the average.
The respective verdicts of the Juries were:—
From Natural causes 29
From Accidental causes—
Asphyxia (infants) 7
Drowned 9
Concussion, Fracture, &c. 4
Killed on Railway 3
Septicœmia from injury 1
Tetanus from injury 1 — 25
Homicidal—
Poison—Opium—Manslaughter, 1,
Suicide 1, 2
„ Hydrochloric Acid, Suicide 1
Drowned, Suicide 1 — 4
Found Dead, newly-born 2
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