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137
The violent deaths are classified as follows:—
Accident—
Suffocation: of infants (in bed) under
one year 14; of infant choked with
food 1; in other ways 3 18
Bums 4
Drowning 1
Fractures and contusions (37) viz.—
Run over by vehicles 8
Falls, under various circumstances 23
Other injuries 6
Poison (Chloral) 1
61
Suicide (5)—
By hanging 2
By cut-stab 1
By drowning 1
By pistol-shot 1
Homicide (1)—
"Manslaughter" 1
6
The Suicidal Deaths (none of which belong to Brompton subdistrict)
comprise 4 males and 1 female. The female, aged
fifty-six, put an end to her existence by drowning in the Serpentine.
One Homicidal Death was registered, viz., a man, aged 36,
"Manslaughter" (in a fight).
Among the deaths described as "sudden," or where the
person was "found dead," &c., there were, as usual, many due
to curable visceral diseases; and there must have been culpable
neglect of the deceased, in that medical attendance had not
been procured, although the illnesses probably extended over
many days, and could scarcely fail to be marked by obvious