City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CW | IC

5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

About this document type

Currently Held: Westminster Abbey Muniment Room

LL ref: WACWIC652330606

Image 606 of 8016th September 1793


and George Falkner< no role > (two Patients in the said Hospital
had taken the deced out of the Bath and they in
immediately wrapped the deceased in a Blanket and
carried him into the Ward and laid him before the
from and third the usual Means for recovering the
Life of drowned Persons but without the wished
for Effect

Ma Thompson< no role >

George Ropers< no role > Assistant Apothecary at St. Georges
Hospital being sworn deposeth and saith that
he believes the Deceased has been a Patient in the
said Hospital about 2 Months and was subject
to Epileptic Fits and by the Contraction of his
Month he very believes that the deceased was seized
with an Epileptic Fit at the time he was in the
hathe and by the means was drowned.

G Rogers

The Verdict
That John Jay< no role > was accidentally
drowned in the bath in St. Georges Hospital on
Friday the 6th. day of Septr. 1793

Thomas Medley< no role > Forman




View as XML