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Thank you. I have the birth certificates but wondered what a corpse register looked like and if it contained information in addition to the cause of death.

I've come across a note in a workhouse Burial Book saying 'See Corpse Register', in the Cause of Death column. Where can I find the corpse register? Is there a repository
somewhere for these books?

Adelaide, (14yrs old) was the witness at the coroners inquest. She was the only daughter alive at that time, her 3 year old sister Susan Eliza died of Bronchial Pneumonia in the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on the 19 Jun 1891. Her twin sisters Margaret and Helen both died shortly after premature birth in the Workhouse Infirmary, Raines St, on the 15 May 1891.
Adelaide was living in Gun St in 1915.
William John Springett Jr, (my grandfather) was her only sibling and he lived in doss houses at the time and there were plenty in Fashion St.
Her mother Margaret died in the Whitechapel Infirmary on the 11 Oct 1907, cause of death 'Sudden - Chronic Alchoholism Natural - Postmortem'. What a sad end to a troubled life.

Susan Eliza Springett died in 1891, age three, so would not have featured in the article. There was only William John and Adelaide alive in 1907.
Adelaide would have been around 14 years old at the time of her mothers death.  In June 1915 she lived at 53 Gun St and was 22 years old. I suspect she could she have been 'in service' at that age and had to remain there for 8 years to keep a roof over her head.
Looks like she started life as a 'skivvie'. A word seldom heard nowadays but the reality of life in those far off days was hard.