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The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.
-The deaths at this institution were 143 (males, 88, and females,
55,) an increase of 12 over the number in 1874. The great majority
of the dceeased, all, in fact, save 9, were non-parishioners:
ninety-six were admitted from London and the suburbs, and 38
from other than metropolitan counties. The registered cause of
death was phthisis (consumption) in 132 cases ; aneurism and heart
disease in 3 ; pulmonary diseases in, 4; cancer, 2; kidney disease, 1;
enteric fever, 1. Eighty-four deaths were registered in the two
winter quarters, and 59 in the summer quarters. The deaths under
20 years of age were 26; between 20 and 30, 55; 30 to 40, 40;
40 to 50, 17; and 50 to 60, 5.
The "Workhouse and the Parish Infirmary.— The
deaths in these institutions, both under the medical charge of Dr.
Whitmore, to whose courtesy I am indebted for much interesting
information, numbered 197; males 101, and females 96, the
quarterly numbers being 60, 56, 41, and 40. Sixteen children died
under one year of age, viz., from diarrhoea (2), chicken-pox (1),
convulsions (5), atrophy (2), abscess (1), bleeding from the nose
(1), malformation (1), premature birth (2), non-expansion of the
lungs at birth (1). Eighty-two deaths occurred at 60 years of
age and upwards, viz., between 60 and 70, forty deaths; 70 to 80,
thirty-seven; 80 to 90, four ; above 90, one; the principal causes of
death being diseases of the lungs (23), of the head (2), of the brain
(18), and cancer (5). Erysipelas and diarrhoea, each caused two
deaths; one death was due to injury (fracture of the femur), and
in 23 cases the patients died worn out by old age and debility.
Rheumatoid anthritis (1), privation (1), dropsy (2), gangrene (1),
and incontinence of urine (1), complete the list. The deaths at
ages between 1 and 60 were 99 in number, viz., measles (2), typhus
fever (1), enteric fever (1), diarrhoea (4), erysipelas (3), cancer
(3), phthisis (36), scrofula (4), brain diseases (16), lung diseases
(12), heart diseases (5), kidney diseases (5), dropsy (1), uterine
hemorrhage (1), ulcer (1), puerperal mania (1), pyaemia,—childbirth—(1),
rheumatoid arthritis (1), marasmus (1). Inquests were
held in four cases, the verdicts being—male, 4 days, " Found dead
in bed: convulsions." Male, 2£ days, " Sudden death : convulsions."
Male, 55 years, " Sudden death : disease of the lungs."
Male, 54 years, "Epilepsy;" a post mortem examination having
been made in each case.
St. Joseph's House.-This Roman Catholic Home for the
aged poor, situate in Portobello Road, Notting Hill, contained
at the last census, (1871,) 213 persons. The deaths last year numbered
45 (males, 23, and females, 22) and occurred for the most
part at very advanced ago (only 2 under 60 years), and principally
from affections common to old age, viz., chest diseases, 17 ;
heart diseases, 7; brain diseases, 8 ; cancer, 3; kidney disease, 2;
diarrhoea, 2; liver disease 1 ; strangulated hernia, 1; and debility
of old age, 4.