City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1768 - 31st December 1768

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Image 239 of 53826th May 1768


Hester Willis< no role > one of the Nurses at St. George's Hospital on
her Oath Saith that the Deced Letitia Hill< no role > was brought to
said Hospital on the Sixteenth Instant with a Wound on
her Head, Says that she told Deced that she had given herself
the Wound in her Head with a Hammer, and that she had been
endeavoured to cut her Throat, and to hang herself,
And Says that the Deced was at times disordered in her
Senses. and that Deced died in said Hospital on the
Twenty sixth Instant.

The Mark of
[mark]
Hester Willis< no role > .

Severally Sworn the Day
Year and Place above
mentioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }

Verdict


That Letitia Hill< no role > being a Lunatick gave herself
a mortal Wound and Fracture in and upon her Head
with a Hammer on the 16. day of May 1768 of which she
languished until the 26. day of the same Month at St. George
Hospital in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square , and
then and there died of the said mortal wound & Fracturer.

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