Kathleen Ada Brown 1879 to 1882

 Taken from “The East London Observer” of 15^th April 1882.

 BETHNEL GREEN

 Inquest.—Mr. George Collier, held an inquest on Tuesday at the London Hospital on the body of Kathleen Ada Brown, aged three years. Mrs. Emily Brown, of 24. Cambridge Buildings, Darnley  road, Bethnal Green, the mother of the deceased, stated that on the 1^st Inst. the child and her sister Florence were playing on the landing. There was a window there which swung on hinges, and the deceased put her hands up against it, when it swung round, and she fell out on to the ground, a distance of 24 feet. Witness ran downstairs and picked up the Child and conveyed it to ‘The London Hospital’. The window ought not to have been unfastened, and witness could not tell how it became undone. The house was on the model dwellings principle.—Mrs. Willis, living at 28 in the same building said that the windows on the balconies were very dangerous, and she was continually warning children against playing in the vicinity of them.—Mr. Appleford state that the child had a compound fracture of the leg, beside. a number of contusions, and she died on Sunday last, from exhaustion consequent on the injuries she had received.—The Coroner, in addressing the Jury, said there could be no doubt that many of these landings were in a dangerous condition and ought to be remedied.—The Jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and expressed an opinion that iron bars should be fixed across the windows. They also considered some one was to blame for not seeing that this was done before.