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Violent Deaths (59) are divided into 4 orders, viz., 1—Accident or
Negligence, 48; 2—Homicide, 1; 3—Suicide, 10; 4—Execution, 0.
The deaths registered from accident or negligence were Fractures and
Contusions 23; Suffocation 16, (12 being infants); Burns and Scalds
5 ; Wounds and Drowning one each ; "Otherwise" 2. One case of manslaughter
(between 1 and 2 years of age) was recorded; and 10
Suicidal deaths, viz., by wounds and poison, 3 each, and by drowning
and hanging, 2 each.
Causes not specified, or ill-defined. Thirty-four such deaths
were registered during the year, including eleven of children under
five years of age.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The "public institutions" of the Registrar General are two,
viz., the parish Workhouse and the Hospital at Brompton for
Diseases of the Chest. At the Workhouse, which is situated in
the Town District, there were 176 deaths, 95 males and 81 females.
Eighteen occurred under one year of age, three between 1 and 5
years, three between 5 and 20, 71 between 20 and 60, and 79
at 60 years and upwards. One death was recorded at the reputed
age of 100 years.
The causes of death were as follow:—
Zymotic diseases 5
Diseases of the Nervous System 31
,, Pulmonary System and Heart 42
Other Visceral Diseases 9
Tubercular, (Scrofulous) Diseases, including
Phthisis 39
Atrophy of Children 12
Premature birth, &c. 6
Cancer 7
Violence 3
Old age 5
Parturition 1, Syphilis 1 2
Various 15
Total 176
At the Consumption Hospital 96 persons died (including a child
newly bom in the institution). Of these 55 were males and 41
females. Only three including the child properly belong to the
parish, while nearly 40 of the deceased came from the Country.
St. Joseph's Home, a charitable institution of the Roman
Catholics, in Portobello Road, Notting Hill, is not classed as a
public institution, but contains some 220 poor persons of both
sexes drawn from all parts, of whom 29 died last year.
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