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Has anybody posted records of homicide rates for the LVP in East London, and i am assuming that unnatural death would be classified differently to natural causes. If the Whitechapel murders could be proven to represent a statistical anomaly, could this be considered supporting evidence for a serial killer at large, and not an unconnected series of common random killings?.
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I'm not even sure what natural causes means. If you die from parasites, I think that is called natural causes but what if you are killed and eaten by a polar bear? That's certainly natural as far as the bear is concerned.
This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.
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We dont have bears wondering about in London, just in the Zoo, no parasites either.I think being killed and eaten would be considered unnatural as far as the Metropolitan Police were concerned, so would strangulation, but maybe not in Illinois.SCORPIOComment
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Hello Scorpio,
I am sure there were and at the present are many many parasites in London.Washington Irving:
"To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence and territorial consequence, when, after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his boots, thrusts his feet into slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire. Let the world without go as it may; let kingdoms rise and fall, so long as he has the wherewithal to pay his bills, he is, for the time being, the very monarch of all he surveys. The arm chair in his throne; the poker his sceptre, and the little parlour of some twelve feet square, his undisputed empire. "
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In Illinois, I believe drinking yourself to death is also considered natural causes which never made much sense to me either. Being killed when your meth lab blows up is, as yet, not considered natural causes here. Neither is falling out of the back of a pickup truck.
Sorry, I didn't mean to dismiss your excellent question. Someone on here (or JTRF) had a record about causes of death in the period but I don't who or where. I think they were murders though, if I remember correctly.Last edited by sdreid; 09-15-2010, 02:49 AM.This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.
Stan ReidComment
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I think Hunter has some figures.
Steve.Comment
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And Colin Roberts.
According to his figures, when you compare knife murders of adult women in the whole of England in the 1880s (and the numbers are much lower than some would have us believe), they shot up in 1888 by a huge percentage, and the increase in the actual body count eerily corresponds almost perfectly with the Whitechapel murders between August and November.
Love,
Caz
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