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drinking boiling water," 1 "through being thrown out of a
chaise," 1 by "Gangrene from Injury to the Hand," 1 by
"Perforation of Skull from falling on an upright nail," 1 of
"Manslaughter against some boy unknown" for drowning
a child, 1 from being "Crushed by a Railway Engine," and 1
by "Hanging;" 2 were from "Excessive Drinking," 2
from "Burns and Injuries from clothes getting on fire," 3 by
"Cut-throat," 3 from " Injuries to Head from a fall," 4 by
"Wilful Murder" of infants newly born, 4 by "Drowning,"
intentional and accidental, 6 from "Rupture of a Bloodvessel,"
7 from "Ossification of the Aorta, Hypertrophy,
and Fatty Degeneration of the Heart," 13 were "found Dying
or Dead," 25 were from "Suffocation," and 42 from
"Sudden Deaths."
"The individuals who, Judas like," took "with their own
hands the lives God gave," numbered 6. One was only 24,
while another had passed her 72nd year. Incision of throat
was the means employed by a corn dealer, a weaver, and the
widow of a twine spinner; hanging by a hawker, and drowning
by the daughter of a furniture dealer and an ostler.
At the several Institutions in the District the deaths consisted
(1) in the Workhouse of 82 male and 100 female
Paupers; (2) in Bethnal House Asylum, of 8 male and 5
female Lunatics; (3) in the City of London Hospital, of 29
male and 5 female Patients; (4) in the Trinity Ground, of
2 male Pensioners; (5) at the Barracks in Globe Street, of
1 Staff Sergeant; and (6) at the Model Buildings of Miss
Burdett Coutts, of 4 male and 2 female Lodgers.
Table 7 classifies the Causes of the Workhouse Deaths.
It shows—with the exception of the column headed "All
other Diseases," which consists for the most part of Deaths
from Age and Decay—that the greatest fatality depended on
Tubercular Affections; two of which, Marasmus and