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Inquests—continued.
Brought forward 41
Injuries from various causes
Injuries received at Charing Cross
Railway Station 1
Poisoning (accidental) 1
Burns and Scalds 3
Injuries from Machinery 1
Run over or knocked down in the street 3
Cause not ascertained 1
Suffocation 3
Cut Throat (Suicide) 2
Falls from Houses I
Intemperance 1
An Infant Stillborn 1
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Mortuary Chapel.
The Mortuary Chapel which is now being erected in
the Drury Lane Burial Ground ought to be a great
boon to our poorer parishioners. When this building is
completed, people having only one room, or not having
suitable accommodation for a corpse, will be able to
remove their deceased relatives there during the
interval of death and burial. In a sanitary point of
view I cannot speak too favourably of the scheme, for
nothing can be more pernicious to health than a dead