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Inquests.
In the year 1881, there were held 74 inquests.
Subjoined are the causes which produced death:—
Natural causes 29
Run over or knocked down in the street 12
Burns and Scalds 4
Pistol-shot wound (accidental) 1
,, „ (suicide) 1
Suffocation 6
Injuries received from falling down stairs 3
,, ,, by a lift at 28, Haymarket 1
„ ,, from fall from a scaffold 2
,, ,, from fall from window 2
,, „ from fall from ladder 1
„ „ at District Railway,
Charing Cross 1
„ „ from being crushed between
a cart and a
stack of bricks 1
Injuries received from explosion of kitchen
boiler 1
Injury to throat (suicide) 1
Poisoning with Cyanide of Potassium
(suicide) 2
Congestion of Lungs from exposure (newly
born infant) 1
Drowning (suicide) 1
„ (No evidence how deceased
came into the water) 4
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