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INQUESTS.
The following verdicts were recorded at Inquests held in the
district during the year:—
Natural Causes 23
Accident 12
Misadventure 2
Manslaughter 1
Murder 1
Suicide (2 run over by train, 2 selfinflicted
wounds, 1 hanging, 1
strychnine poisoning, 1 morphia
poisoning) 7
ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN.
The Registrar-General excludes from his returns from local
areas the deaths of all members of the armed forces. Information
was received of 36 deaths occurring in Leyton from the following
causes:—
Gunshot Wound 17
Shrapnel Wound 3
Shell Gas and Burns 1
Morbus Cordis 1
Middle Ear Disease 1
Perforating Duodenal Ulcer 1
Perforating Atheromatous Ulcer of Aorta 1
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 1
Tumour Cerebellum 1
Acute Lobar Pneumonia 1
Influenza 8
Six notifications of infectious diseases among members of
the forces were also received, viz.:—Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 1;
Tuberculosis of Bladder, 1; Cerebrospinal Meningitis, 1; Scarlet
Fever, 1; and Erysipelas, 2.
These notifications are not included in Table II.
HOUSING.
House-to-house inspection is regularly carried on, especially
in the poorer neighbourhoods, in which it is found that houses tend