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Birth and Debility 70, by Atrophy 19, and by Old Age 123.
Classes 16 and 17, record 10 Sudden and 81 Violent, or
non-specified deaths.
On the other hand, taking the 3 great groups of diseases,
which Dr. Greenhow states are both absolutely and relatively
the chief causes of high death rates—viz., (1.) Pulmonary
Affections, including Consumption and the several diseases
of the respiratory class; (2.) Profluvial Diseases, comprising
Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera; and (3.) the Nervous
Diseases of children, comprehending Water on the Brain,
Convulsions and Teething—they numbered in each 1000
deaths, 293, 46, and 75. In England and Wales, and in all
London, out of every 1000 deaths, Pulmonary Affections
constitute 241 and 264; Diarrhœal Diseases 72 and 110;
and the Nervous Diseases of children 87 and 68.
On the 99 persons in respect of whose deaths Inquests
were held, the Verdicts may be thus summed up:—"Found
Dying" or "Dead" in houses, streets, canals, or parks, 43;
by "Suffocation or Overlaying," 4; by "Sudden" and
"Natural Deaths," 26; by "Visitation of God," 2; by
"Drowning," 6; "Hanging," 4; "Cut Throats," 2;
"Excessive Drinking," 1; by "Compression of Brain" and
"Rupture of Blood Vessels," 3; by "Falls," "Pressure
from an Engine," and "a Carriage Wheel," 4; by "Haemorrhage
and Exhaustion after Labour," 2; "From cold,
and insufficient food," 1; and "from the effects of 3 drops
of Laudanum," 1. Of the Adults 29 were Males and 24
Females; of the children 23 were Boys and 23 were Girls.
5 unknown infants, newly-born, were left to perish in a privy,
the canal and streets; and among the suicides, one—under
alcoholic influence—cut his throat at his own shop door.
The number of those who ended their days in our 3 large
institutions, was 288; of whom there died in the Consumption
Hospital 14, in Bethnal House Asylum 59, and in the