City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex

Informations taken this Sixteenth day of
September 1771 at the Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty of Westmr . in the County of Middlesex
upon an Inquisition touching the death of Mary
Spires< no role > lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County

John Cartwright Dickinson< no role > House Surgeon at the
Westmr. Hospital in the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr
on his Oath saith That on the 26th. day of August last
between the Hours of Ten and Eleven in the Evening
Mary Spires< no role > the Deced was brought to said Hospital
with a Contused Wound on the Right side of her Head
about one Inch in Length the Bone being Bare, says
that upon Examination he found no Fracture nor Bring
on the Bone, says that the Deced went on very well
for several days without any bad Symptoms, That she
afterwards began to be Feverish and low, and notwithstanding
all possible care was taken of her, a Diarehea seized her
on the Ninth day of this Instant September,which was
succeeded the next Morning by a Shivering Fit, the
Diarehea was relieved but she Continued gradually Sinking
until the thirteenth Instant when she died in said Hospital
Says that the Body of the Deced was afterwards opened in
said Hospital and was Examined by Mr. Pyle one of the
Surgeons of said Hospital (whose patient the Deced had been)
And this Dept. says that Mr. Pyle gave him this day a
Letter which he desired this Dept. to deliver to the Coroner
and Jury of which the following is a true Copy
Gentleman

"Not being able to attend you myself in
"Person I take the Liberty to state to yor the Case of the
"deceased Mary Spires< no role > , on whose Account you are now
"called together. She was brought into the Hospital the
"26th. of August having received a contused wound on the Head
"the Skull was bare, but there was no Fracture neither
"had she any bad Symptoms, and she continued without
any