The Express. — 1852-07-12 (London, England)

FATAL HEAT OF.THE WEATHER.  The number of sudden deaths directly attributable to the extreme heat of the weather inmate . ith every day. At II o'clock on Saturday night Mr. O. 8. Brent held an inquest at the Wellington, University-street, St. Pancras, on Mr. Oscar Webb, meil 39, cheeremonger. 109, Totten. ham-court-road. On Friday afternoon, deceased, while standing in the shop, was visited by a friend, who said to " It's a very hot day." To which deceased replied, ' " very," and instantly dropped dead. Mr. Derbyshire made a post marten examination and found in the right ventricle of the heart a rent produced by the heat of the weather, and which caused an effeelos into the pericardium, and that produced death. The heart had been previously diseased. The coroner acid that he held the inquest at so late an hour iu consequence of the petrified state of the body, and the intense heat of the weather, which rendered it so dangerous to keep a body in that state in the house, that Mr. Carter, the landlord of the Wellington, had kindly allowed it to be removed to his premises. Fhe jury unhesitatingly returned is virdiet in accordance with the medical evidence. On Friday, Mr. G. S. Brent held an inquest at the Green Man, Harrow, on Michael Curike, aged 40, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Ouodchild, proprietor of the "Forty Acres Form." On Tucslay deceased. while haymaking, staggered forward and fell. Ma fellow-labourers, upon raising hire up, found him in the agonies of death, and he only survived four hours. Mr. Hewlett made apeee ~ion examination, and found that d,ath resulted from a coup de 50.4i1. Mr. Brent held a second inquest at the Steward's Arms, Shepherd's Market, Notting-hill, upon Elisabeth Osborne, a nursery-mail, aged 14, in the family of Mrs. Kingston. Deceased wheeled the children to Kenaal-green, a dimwits, of two miles. Upon returning home she complained of headache. and laid herself outside the bed, from which she fell to the floor a few hours afterwards a lifeless corpse, and quite black. Dr. Frost, who performed a post mocks' examination, gave it as his opinion that death remitted from coup de oled. Mr. Wakley has held two inquests in similar curs. Communications have reached London from several die trice announcing numerous fatal catastrophes from the same cause. Two such deaths occurred in the neighbourhood of Newport, Monmouthshire, on Wednesday, from the extreme beat of the sun ; the one was of a man mowing grass, and the other a young fi male in the field. A Paris contemporary of Friday says : The great heat of the last few days has occasioned many cases of mental alienation ; on Wednesday not fewer than seven persons giving evident dos of insanity were found in the streets. In the evening of that day a tradesman residing in the Rue Pagevia illosiod into the Seine at Choisy-le Rol', but was rescued bean be could commit suicide. lie could emirs no sem Ace the act ; and on being taken before a medical Mil lOW declared to be mad. On the same evening a female, aged 14, who formerly kept a wine-shop at Mantes, threw hermit into the river at Choosy-le-Roi, but was saved by two persons who were passing. She also said that she could not explain why she attempted self destruction. All these persons have, by order of the Prefect of Police, been admitted to asylums. The heat of yesterday was not tempered by the pleasant breeze which prevailed during the two preceding days. The thermometer of M. Chevalier marked, at two o'clock, 30 deg. 8-10ths of centigrade, or 871 of Fahrenheit. Several horses hare fallen dead in the 'meets in the course of the last few days by the excessive beat. Yesterday one fell dead under an omnibus belonging to a school just as it came to the descent from the Pont des St. Peres. Madame Gonzales, widow of an army surgeon, and mother of M. Emmanuel Gonzales, an author of some note, died at Paris, on Thursday, of apoplexy caused by the extreme heat As M. Laureau, the manager of an sating-house, in the Rue Fontaine-Moliere, was the evening before last standing at his counter conversing cheerfully with wine friends, he suddenly fell lifeless to the ground. He was immediately bled, but without avail. lie was only 38 years of age, and was a man of a very robust constitution.