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Urinary System.—Eighty-seven deaths were due to diseases of the urinary system; 64 and 23
in the Town and Brompton sub-districts respectively; Chronic Bright's Disease {Albuminuria),
being- the cause of 50 deaths, Bladder and Prostate Disease of 18, and Other Diseases of the
Urinary System of 7.
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE.
Eighty-six deaths, including 23 under five years of age, and 17 under one year, were
caused by violence; 71 belonging to the Town sub-district, and 15 to Brompton. Accident or
negligence occasioned 69 deaths, 56 in the Town sub-district, and 13 in Brompton; 21 of them
under five years of age, and 15 under one year. Fractures and Contusions were responsible for 29
deaths; Burn, Scald, for 9, and Suffocation for 13—of which 10 were of infants under one year.
Suicide accounted for 14 deaths; 13 and 1 in the Town and Brompton sub-districts respectively;
by Gun Shot Wound 3, Cut, Stab 3, Poison 4, Drowning 1, Hanging 1, and otherwise 2.
Ill-defined and Not specified causes of death were returned in 50 cases; 45 in the Town
sub-district and 5 in Brompton; 47 were certified due to Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, all but one
of them of infants under one year.
DEATHS AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The only large public institution in which we are directly interested is the Poor-law infirmary
located in the Town sub-district. There are several public institutions, at which the deaths are
mainly of non-parishioners; viz., St. Marylebone Infirmary, North Kensington, St. Luke's House
for the dying, Pembridge Square, the Kensington General Hospital at Brompton, the Brompton
Consumption Hospital, and St. Joseph's House, Portobello Road, Notting Hill, a Roman Catholic
Home for aged poor persons of both sexes. The deaths of non-parishioners at St. Marylebone
Infirmary (530), at the Brompton Consumption Hospital (4), at St. Luke's House (91), at the Kensington
General Hospital (1), at St. Joseph s House (29), and the Kensington Children's Hospital
(4), are excluded from our Statistics. The deaths of parishioners registered at the Infirmary
and Workhouse (546), at the Consumption Hospital (2), at the Kensington General Hospital (1), at
Kensington Children's Hospital (4), at St. Luke's House (11), at St. Joseph's House (4), and at
outlying' public institutions (322). aerereeate 890: or 37.1 per cent, of total deaths.

The Borough Infirmary.—I am indebted to Dr. H. Percy Potter, the medical superintendent,
for the statistics of mortality at this important institution. The deaths, the causes of which
are set out in the table below, were 538*, compared with 552, 541, and 526 in the preceding three
years respectively, and were equal to 22.4 per cent, of all the deaths recorded in the borough. The
quarterly numbers were 178, 137, 107, and 116; 294 deaths, therefore, occurred in the first and
fourth or colder quarters, and 244 in the second and third or warmer quarters of the year. The
deaths included 277 of males and 261 of females. The ages at death were:—Under one year, 73
•This is the number actually occurring during the year. The number registered was 546.