DEATH FROM THE INTENSE HEAT IN ENGLAND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1184, 7 November 1884, Page 3

DEATH FROM THE INTENSE HEAT IN ENGLAND.

A Home pa; er of August 23 says • —Tie coroner for Central Muuiiesex held inquests mi Saturday on the hod es of six persons who hj .d died from the effects of the in tense heat. Samuel Bice, aged 62, a clothworker and packer, was taken ill whilst at work on Wednesday, and on being conveyed to his home in New North street, Hob orn, was Seized with a fit, and died soon afterwards. Mr John Austein Miller, aged 56. of 81 Granvil e street >’., a retired stockhr ker, who generally enjoyed good health, went to bed on Tuesday night as usual, an I next morning was found dead in I ed. Charles Spaikes, aged 52. of 17 Upper Charles street, Islington, was taken ill on Wednesday after oon, and died soon afterwards. A little boy, aged 5 years, named George Frederick Cook, living at 65 Charlotte street, Islington, fell down dead after having gone to the door to take some milk in. Joseph Smith, a jeweller, aged 44, of 1 York Cottages, Islington, wis seized with illness while at work on Thursday, and expired, William Parker, aged 6't, of 7 Eisinghill street, Pentonville, who had for three years suffered from paralysis, was seized wih illness on Friday evening, and died in a few minutes. In all these cases the medical evidence showed that death was the result of the extreme heat, and verdicts ac 'ordingly were returned.—An inquest was held last week at Macclesfield on the body of John Gee, aged 15, an iamate of the Industrial nehool.who, after returning from an errand on Monday, complained of intense pain in the eyes and head. It appears that the deceased and another boy had tried who could stare longest at the sun. This piece of folly was attended with fatal effects in the case of the deceased, for towards night the pain became intense, and, despite all the efforts of the master of the institution, the boy died in great agony.—A man named George Dilley, 60 years of age, died at Spalding last week from a sunstroke received whilst, at work in the harvest field,—A man named James Fallen, aged 60, a potman, died on Saturday morning whilst at the surgery of Dr Tickler, Ball’s Point road. The man belonged to the Order of Foresters, and had gone to ask the doctor to write out a certificate enabling him to participate in the benefit fund. The doctor had just written it when the man slid forward off his chair and fell to the flooa In spite of the powerful restoratives which were promptly administered, life wa* found to be extinct. Death was due to heart disease, accelerated by the extreme heat.— On the same day an old man nam’d

Jordan, while at work on »ifarm at ickhain, in Kent, was suddenly seized wir.h illness, aud in a few moments died.- Two item died at Bolton on Monday f<om the excessive heat. One cash' was that of a young man who was caning for the Corporation 'and the other that of an old man, who dropped down dead after drinking a bottle of ginger beer An inquest was held on Mon lay nkht, at Bath, on the body of man named Henry 8, Siivth, who com miited suicide by, banging himself while suffering acut ly from pains in the bead, hansel by the excessive heat.—A man named John Gurton, aged 34, u potman, who was being biven in a cab on Sunday afternoon from Westminster Bridge road to Vauxhall, who was found insensible on reaching his destination, and on being taken to the hospital was found to he dead.— William Bennett, aged 73, landlord of a pul lie-house in Braby street. Whitechapel, who had been on a visit to Xa mouth, fell down in a fit on the deck of a steamer at Back wall on F iday, and died on the following day a*- Guy’s Hospital. At 'he inquest the house surgeon at the hospital said death was due to the heat of ihe weather. All the organs were in a bad state, and appar ntly deceased was a man who had drank +o excess. A person in that condition w uld succumb to the intense heat.