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INQUESTS.
The Coroner held 209 inquests, 7.3 per cent., or one in thirteenand-a-half
of the total deaths. This is slightly above the general
Metropolitan rate, which was seven per cent. The violent deaths
numbered 94, three-and-a-quarter per cent. of the total mortality.
Eighty-two were from accident or negligence, and twelve were
suicides. Of these latter five men hanged themselves, one woman
jumped out of window and fractured her skull, and two men and
one woman took poison, one of these took cyanide of potassium,
another carbolic acid, and the third "poison." Thirty-nine
children were suffocated, and two adults died from this cause, one
was an old man, 75 years of age, who was suffocated through the
neglect of his wife, the cause of death in the other case was spasm
of the glottis, consequent on the bite of a cat. One death was
returned as from Hydrophobia. Much alarm was felt all over
London during the year from the numerous deaths from this
disease. This result led to energetic measures on the part of the
police in regard to stray dogs. The deaths ascribed to Hydrophobia
in the year were 27, much over the average, and more numerous
than in any previous year. The nearest approach having been in
1877, when 16 deaths were registered from this cause.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Eighteen deaths were uncertified ; nearly all of these were those
of infants who died a few hours after birth, either from convulsions
or from deficient vitality.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The number of persons who died in Hospital in Bethnal Grreen
was 534; of these 365 died in the workhouse (212 males and 153
females); 99 in the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the
Chest, Victoria Park (61 males and 38 females); 54 in Bethnall
House Lunatic Asylum (28 males and 26 females); and 16 in the
Mildmay Mission Hospital (9 males and 7 females).