DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest. At this important institution 131 persons died, viz., 80 males and 51 females. All the deaths, with the exception of eight, were due to that hitherto incurable malady phthisis, or as it is popularly known, consumption. Five deaths were caused by heart disease, one by aneurism, and two by lung disease. The deaths in the four quarters respectively were 26, 30, 30, and 45. Six only of the deaths properly belong to the parish. Seventy-five of the deceased came from other parishes in London and the suburbs, and 50 from other than metropolitan counties. If the truth were known, it is not improbable that some few deaths from phthisis outside the hospital properly belong to other districts, the patients having come to town for medical treatment attracted by the fame of the institution, and being attended as out-patients.
St. Joseph’s House.—This large charitable establishment of the Roman Catholics, situated in Portobello Road, Notting Hill, is not classed as a public institution, although its inmates (about 200) are drawn from all parts. The deaths last year numbered 36—males 21 and females 15—all above 60 years of age, and due to the more common diseases of senility, as Brain disease 8, Lung and Heart disease 16, Cancer 3, Intestinal diseases 3, “Old Age” 2, other diseases 4.
The Parish Infirmary.—At this large and important hospital there were 221 deaths, viz., in the four quarters respectively 61, 40, 44, and 76; males 117, females 104. The deaths included 37 of infants under one year of age, and 86 of persons above 60 years of age, viz., between 60 and 70, 36; 70–80, 38; 80–90, 11; at 97, 1. Inquests were held in three cases, the verdicts returned being (1) “Sudden, apoplexy, natural causes,” (2) “Fall from a window, accidental,” (3) “Fall from a ladder, accidental.”
The causes of death may be summarised thus:—
| Brain disease, Apoplexy, Paralysis, &c. | 26 |
| Lung diseases | 37 |
| Heart disease | 7 |
| Scrofulous or Tuberculous diseases, Phthisis, &c. | 41 |
| Wasting diseases, Debility, &c., of Children | 21 |
| Atelectasis (Imperfect expansion of lungs at birth) | 5 |
| Cancer | 8 |
| Enteric fever | 2 |
| Measles | 4 |
| Diarrhœa | 3 |
| Intestinal diseases, &c. | 13 |
| Kidney disease | 4 |
| Uterine diseases | 2 |
| Ulcer | 3 |
| Childbirth, &c. | 3 |
| Violent 2. Privation 1. | 3 |
| Old Age | 23 |
| Various | 16 |
| Total | 221 |