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RichardB

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Friday March 17th 1837

It is a melancholy fact, that Mr Badger the coroner of Sheffield, has within the short space of 10 days, had occasin to hold inquests on 13 persons who have come to their deaths by accidents solely arising from indulging in the baneful vice of drunkenness.

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Thursday February 9th 1860

The Sheffield Coroner within ten days held six inquests in cases of death caused by drunkenness, and the number of children who had been left fatherless in those six cases was between 25 and 30.

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