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INQUESTS.
Thirty deaths were certified by the Coroner.
A Coroner's jury, as a rule, consider death under two main
aspects. They distinguish deaths by disease from deaths as the
result of violence or negligence.
Under the former head 13 deaths occurred. By far the
largest number of deaths from violence was due to suicide. No
fewer than 8 persons committed suicide during the year, which is
exactly double the number for 1904.
Two deaths from overlaying occurred ; and, as usual with
this kind of accident, one occurred on a Saturday night and the
other on a Sunday night.
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The Isolation Hospital is situated in Wales Farm Road,
and was opened for the reception of patients on January 18th,
1905. The question of providing an Isolation Hospital had
been discussed for years, and the first application to the Local
Government Board in connection with it was on February 21st,
1901. The Council had negotiated with the Goldsmith Company
for the purchase of the Friars Estates as a site for the Isolation
Hospital. The price agreed on for the whole area was £13,400,
and of this the sum allocated for the site of the Hospital
was £5,000.
On the estate was a dwelling-house, and this building was
transformed and utilised as an administrative block. The
inquiry by the Local Government Board was held on May 20th,
1901, but for some unaccountable reason the sanction was not
obtained until January 17th, 1902. The application for the
money to erect the Hospital buildings was made on June 2nd,
1902, the inquiry was held on November 6th, and the sanction
obtained on December 24th, 1902.