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that on the confines of London anyone should die
from alleged Influenza, Smallpox, Diarrhoea or
Measles, and be buried without a medical certificate
of the cause of death being given, or a public inquiry
into the death being held.
DEATHS OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT.
Of persons belonging to it, have been 103 in the
Metropolis, and 105 in the Workhouse. Of those in
the Metropolis there have occurred in the thirty
Hospitals and Infirmaries, 115; in lunatic asylums, 23;
and in other places, 25. Twenty-five inquests were
held. There have been 17 deaths from Consumption,
and 7 from other tubercular diseases.
INQUESTS.
The number of inquests held in the District
was 90, of which 45 were ascribed to natural causes,
25 to accident, 2 to negligence, 12 to suicide, 1 to
misadventure, 2 found drowned, 1 convulsions from
improper feeding, 1 alcoholic poisoning and 1 murder.
Of those dying by suicide 2 were returned as shot by
revolver, 2 by cut throat, 1 by throwing herself in
front of train, and 7 by poisoning. Of those dying
from taking poison, oxalic acid caused 1 death, prussic