Casualties

28-30 May 1701   This week we have had the following casualties, viz. Distracted 1. Drowned 1. Murdered 1. Killed by Falls 3. and by the Kick of a Horse 1. Poysoned 1. And Over-laid 3. [London Post]

13 December 1718   Casualties. Bruised by a cart wheel at St. Giles without Cripplegate 1. Burnt to death accidentally at St. Dunstan at Stepney 1. Cut his throat (being lunatick) at St. Andrew in Holborn 1. Drowned accidentally in a ditch at St. Paul at Shadwel 1. Found dead in the street at St. Martin in the Fields 1. Hanged themselves 2, one (being lunatick) at St. Andrew in Holborn, and one at St. Leonard in Shoreditch. Kill’d accidentally by a falling down of two houses at St. Brides 4. Overlaid 1. [Weekly Journal, or The British Gazetteer]

22 May 1725   Deaths and Casualties. Sir Richard Stytch, Bart. of Barking in Essex. — The Rev. Mr. Lazinby, Rector of St. Antholins in Watling Street, at Bath. — Lady Dowager Mohun, relict of the late Lord Mohun, kill’d in a duel by Duke Hamilton. — A black-shoe boy, kill’d by a carpenter at the new Admiralty Office, the man is fled. — On Wednesday a woman whose name is Jones, lately brought to bed of an illegitimate child, hang’d her self at her lodgings. Her sister some years ago, executed the like death upon herself. — On Tuesday morning a man well dressed was found drowned in a pond in St. George’s Fields; yesterday he was discover’d to be one Smith, clerk to an attorney. [Mist’s Weekly Journal]

26 March 1726   Casualties. Drowned in the river of Thames at St. Katherine by the Tower 1. Executed 2. Found dead in the Street at St. Anne’s in Westminster 1. Hang’d herself at St. Paul in Covent Garden 1. Kill’d 2. one (a female child by the mother cutting her throat with a razor) at St. Dunstan at Stepney, and one by a fall out of a window at St. Giles’s in the Fields. Overlaid 2. Threw himself out of a window at St. Andrew in Holborn 1. [Weekly Journal, or The British Gazetteer]

9 April 1726   Casualties. A woman found dead in the street near Bishopsgate. A child run over with a cart and killed. A footman belonging to the Prince stabb’d himself in the throat with a penknife. A journeyman shoemaker in an alley in Shoe-Lane, stepping from his own garret window to a neighbour’s, fell down and beat his brains out. [Mist’s Weekly Journal]

4 June 1726   Casualties. Cut his throat (being lunatic) at St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey 1. Drowned 4, one in a tub of water, (a female infant) at St. Giles’s without Crippplegate, one in the river of Thames at St. Mary at Lambeth, one at St. Paul in Shadwell, and one at St. James in Westminster. Found dead in the Street at St. Ann’s in Westminster 1. Kill’d by a fall out of a window (a male infant) at St. Giles’s without Cripplegate 1. Kill’d by a horse (a child) at St. Giles’s in the Fields 1. Overlaid 1. [Weekly Journal, or The British Gazetteer]