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The violent deaths are classified as follows:
Accident (64) viz.
Suffocation: of infants (in bed), under
one year, 16; of person choked with
food, 1 - - 17
Burns - - - 14
Drowning - - -2
Poison - - I
Fractures and contusions (30) viz.
Run over by vehicles - - 6
Falls, under various circumstances - 19
Other injuries - - - 5
Suicide (14)—
By hanging - - 3
By cut-stab - - - 6
By poison - - -2
, By pistol-shot - - - 2
Otherwise - - - 1
Homicide—
"Manslaughter" - - 2
80
The Suicidal Deaths (none of which belong to the
Brompton sub-district) comprise lOof.males and 4 of females-
Two Homicidal Deaths were registered.
Among the deaths described as "sudden," or in cases
of persons "found dead," &c., there were, as usual, many
due to curable visceral disease; and there must have been
culpable neglect of the deceased, in that medical attendance
had not been procured,although the illnesses probablyextended
over many days, and could scarcely fail to have been marked
by obvious symptoms of a more or less serious and painful
nature. The mere finding of the "cause of death," in such