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Under "Premature Birth and Debility" our loss was 59;
three of whom wore out between forty and sixty years, of
premature decay.
The mortality in the next two groups includes 11
from "Atrophy" and 119 from "Old Age." In the
latter class 4 perished untimely under sixty years.
Lastly, Classes 16 and 17 register 96 "Sudden" and 53
"Violent Deaths;" the former from Natural Causes, from
Epidemics, Spasm of the Glottis and Diseases of the Brain,
Heart and Lungs; the latter from Intemperance, from Privation
of food, Burns, Suffocation, and various violent and
suicidal means.
In 1862, 154 Inquests were held in Bethnal Green; 88,
or 38 Adults and 50 Boys belonged to the Male, and 66, or
34 Adults and 32 Girls to the Female sex. The verdicts
separately and collectively have been thus returned:—1 by
a "Shock from falling down a Sewer;" 1 by a "Shock from
Burns;" 1 by "Effusion of Serum on the Brain;" 1 by
"Suffocation from food getting into the air passages whilst
coughing;" 1 by "Congestion of Brain from excessive
drinking;" 1 by "An Irritant Poison, how taken not
known;" 1 by "Self-Suffocation;" 1 by "Self-Cut-Throat;"
1 "Knocked down by a horse and cart;" 1 "Run over by a
railway van 2 by "Accidental Drowning;" 4 by "Concussion
and Inflammation of Brain from a fall;" 4 by
"Wilful Murder;" 4 by "Self-Drowning;" 7 by "Strangulation
by Hanging;" 11 "Found Dying or Dead;" 16
by "Suffocation;" and 96 by "Sudden Deaths."
Fourteen individuals, or 1 out of every 7614 committed
Suicide in the year. The positions and ages of these SelfDestroyers
are annexed below. The wife of a Clerk ended
her days at 26, a Hawker at 28, the wife of a Porter at 29,
the widow of a Bricklayer at 35, a Male unknown at 40, a