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Inquests.
The deaths from other causes will be found fully
detailed in the Tables at the end of my Report.
In the year 1873, there were held 73 inquests.
Subjoined are the causes which produced death:—
Natural causes
30
Drowning
3
Injuries received from falling down stairs
3
Cause not ascertained
6
Burns and Scalds
6
Falls from Houses
4
Suffocation
1
Run over or knocked down in the street
1
Injuries received from falls in the street
11
Hanging
1
Inflammation of brain, caused by a
locust bean put into the ear of a little
boy by himself
1
Inflammation of brain, from injury to
eye, caused accidentally by a piece of
tin thrown by a boy in the street
1
Injuries received from the falling of a
brick wall
1
Carried forward
69