Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 283 of 7129th January 1786


William Robinson< no role > of King Street Seven deals Surgeon
on his Oath Saith That on the Ninth day of January instant
a Girl came to him desiring him to come to see a Woman
who was very ill and on going to the House of one
Mary Forster< no role > No 39 in New Compton Street where he was directed
he found deceased dead. and upon Examining the Body
the deceased appeared to have lost a great quantity of
blood the cause of which he apprehends from every
observation he could make was owing to the deceaseds
having been suddenly seized with a violent fit of laughing
which had occasioned the bursting of an Artery inwardly
and owing to the amazing lost of blood in consequence
thereof was the cause of her Death. and as there was
no external Marks of violence on her Body which could
have produced the great quantity of blood that came
from the deceased Deponent in opinion that her Death
was occasioned in manner aforesaid and not by any
other Cause. and he is more satisfied in his opinion as
the colour of blood issuing from a Vein and blood Issuing from




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