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The number of deaths from various kinds of degeneration
and ill-development was, 128, including those of
children who were born prematurely, 14; or who were
too feeble to live, 7; or who died of teethiDg, 10; or malformations,
4; fits, 20; water in the head, 6 ; scrofula, 4;
and tabes mesenterica, 11; and of all who died of consumption,
52.
The deaths from lung disease were 98; they fluctuate
according to the weather from about 20 to 150 per
quarter.
The deaths in childbirth are 8, being twice the usual
number, and demand a notice, but do not appear to have
been due to any preventable influence. Two were attributed
to haemorrhage, one to puerperal fever, two to
inflammation, one to consumption, and one was that of an
unfortunate unmarried French girl, who fainted off and
died of grief, when she found that she had given birth to
twins.
Amongst the deaths worthy of note, we find one of a
lady aged 28, who died of a choleraic attack, attributed to
the chloroform used in removing a tumour from the breast;
two deaths after operations for removing ovarian tumours;
one after an operation on a parotid tumour, and one
of a man of 50, an interpreter from Brompton, of starvation.
The last set of deaths on which we shall offer any remarks,
are those arising from accident as it is called,
or from crime. Among these, are the cases of infanticide,
real or supposed. There was a male child about 6 weeks
oid, found drowned in the Serpentine;—a female infant
newly born, with a tape round its neck;—another newly
born female infant, found in Hyde Park, which seemed to
have been suffocated. These were doubt less murders.
On the other hand such entries as the two following