An inquiry into the statistics of deaths from violence and unnatural causes in the United Kingdom; with special reference to deaths from starvation, overlying of infants, burning, administration of anaesthetics, and poisoning... / by William A. Brend.
- Brend, William Alfred, 1873-
- Date:
- 1915
Licence: In copyright
Credit: An inquiry into the statistics of deaths from violence and unnatural causes in the United Kingdom; with special reference to deaths from starvation, overlying of infants, burning, administration of anaesthetics, and poisoning... / by William A. Brend. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![of still-births which occur; but even as a return of those that become the subject of inquests, there is reason to doubt its accuracy, since juries frequently find that a child was still-born, in the face of the clearest medical evidence to the contrary, in order to save an unmarried mother from being charged with murder or manslaughter. The Coroners' Areas. The areas tabulated in the Home Office Blue-book over which Coroners exercise jurisdiction, though nominally based upon the Coroners' Act of 1844, are in fact among the oldest local divisions in the country. The Coroners' Juris- dictions in England and Wales, issued by the Home Office in 1909, states that The divisions of counties for Coroners' purposes under the Coroners' Act, 1844, has not been made upon a uniform system. The division is usually made by parishes, but hundreds, parliamentary divisions, petty sessional divisions, and sanitary districts, etc., have also been used, and in one case reference was made only to the areas indicated on a map which accompanied the petitions of the Justices. In some cases the Coroners' area is the county borough, though even here,the boundaries are not always the same, but in the majority of cases the Coroners' area does not correspond with any other Administrative area. The following, for example, is the Coroners' area for the Southampton district:— Petty sessional divisions of Lymington (exclusive of the parishes of Hordle, Milford, and Milton, and parts of the parishes of Boldre and Sway); New Forest; Ringwood (parishes of Breamore [part of], Burley, Damerham, Ford- ingbridge [part of], Martin, Toyd Farm with AUenford, EUingham [part of], Whitsbury, and Woodgreen, and the townships of Ashley Walk and Broomy, and including the borough of Christchurch); Romsey (excluding the parish of Ampfield); Southampton ; and Winchester (parts of the parish of Chandler's Ford). Boroughs of Lymington and Romsey.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21352914_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
