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The violent deaths were classified as follows:—
Accident:
Suffocation: of infants (in bed) under one
year, 7; of infants choked with food,
2; by inhalation of chloroform, 1;
otherwise, 2 12
Burns 7
Drowning 1
Fractures and Contusions (27), viz.—
Run over by vehicles 6
Falls under various circumstances 17
Other injuries 4
Rupture of blood vessel in leg 2
Hydrophobia 1
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Suicide (14):
By hanging 4
By poison 3
By drowning 2
By pistol-shot 1
By cut, stab 2
By fall from window 1
On railway 1
Homicide (2):
Wilful murder (by criminal abortion) 1
" Manslaughter" 1
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The Suicidal Deaths, 14, of which 4 belong to Brompton
sub-district, comprise 11 of males and 3 of females. The
females, aged respectively, fifty-eight, twenty-seven, and twentyseven
years, died by drowning, by hanging and by poison (oxalic
acid). The causes of death in the males were : hanging 3,
poison (corrosive sublimate) 2, cut throat 2, pistol shot,
drowning, fall from window, and injuries on underground
e 2