City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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City and Liberty of
Westminster in the
County of Middlesex }


Informations of Witnesses taken this
19th. day of October 1792 in the Parish
of Saint John the Evangelist , at the Dwelling

House of William Spittle< no role > Known by the Sign of the #
Bricklayer's Arms in Hurton Ground before Anthony
Gell
< no role > , his Majesty's Coroner for the Said City & Liberty,
touching the Death of Sarah Jones< no role > then and there
lying dead .

Mr Richard Barrow< no role > Surgeon Shuton Ground being
Sworn Saith that he opened the Body of the deceased
on Wednesday Last the 17th. Oct. Just & found a very
considerable adhesion of the right Lungs to the Plura of
the right Side on the left Side there was a
days external Bruise & the Small Intestines
which came in Contact were inflamed every
other part appeared to he perfectly health the
Death was occasioned by the Adhesion of the
Lung, but what Cause produces that effect
this Deponent cannot Say, but this Deponent
Saith that that Effect can be produced from various
banses.

Nich Barrow< no role > .

Mary Haswell< no role > a nurse in the Work house
Mertner being Sworn Saith that the Deced
came into the above Work house on Tuesday the 9th
October very indifferent & complained much of a
Shortness of Breath being very [..] asthmatical inth which she had been




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