City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1772 - 30th December 1772

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Mr Wilson presents his Compliments to the Coroner and
begs to assure him he is confined to his House with a violent
Information in his left Eye attended with acute pain, or
would have waited upon him.

Mr Wilson bled the deceased on Thursday Evening Soon [..]
he was taken out of the Chymney after which he seem'd to
come to himself and recover Mr. Wilson ordered him to be
carried home the Person who seems accused by the Mother of
the deceased called at Mr. Wilsons with the Boy in his Arms
when Mr. Wilson examined his Pulse and thought him rather
benefitted by the her; The accused behaved with the utmost
tenderness and Compassion to the Boy in every Respect
in my presence

As to the Boys Death it appears very evident that it was
occasioned by the Steam of Wood [..] then drying
in the Oven, meeting the boy on his return down the
Chymney

Berners Street No is 17 [..]




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