Report on the deaths among the assured in the Standard Life Assurance Company for the period from 15th November, 1850, to 15th November, 1855.

Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report on the deaths among the assured in the Standard Life Assurance Company for the period from 15th November, 1850, to 15th November, 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The accidents of travelling account for seven deaths of tlie twenty which have occurred during the last five j^ears, two persons having been killed by railway accidents, and five having perished at sea by the shipwreck of great ocean-steamers. Six others have been otherwise drowned ; one of these by his own act. Four have been killed by falls ; one by an accidental gunshot wound on the moors; and one by monkshood given in the form of tinc- ture by mistake. The twentieth was a case of suicide by hanging. ROBERT CHRISTISON.