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"disease" included in this order, and it was the registered cause
of 88 deaths, viz., 65 in the Town sub-district, and 23 in Brompton.
This cause of death was assigned in 3 cases between 55 and 65
years; in the next decennium there were 16 deaths: between 75
and 85, 47: between 85 and 95, 20: while upwards of 95 there
were 2 deaths, one at 102 years.
Order 4. Diseases of Nutrition.—"Atrophy and Debility"
caused 149 deaths, of which only 20 were registered in Brompton.
One hundred and twenty-seven of the deaths occurred in the first
year. Between 45 and 85 years, 9 deaths were ascribed to these
causes.
Class 5.—VIOLENT DEATHS.
Forty-one deaths (29 and 12 in the Town and Brompton respectively)
were distributed over the orders comprised in this
class, and which the Registrar-General numbers respectively (1)
Accident or Negligence, (3) Homicide, (4) Suicide, and (5)
Execution.
Order 1. Accident or Negligence.—31 deaths, viz., from
fractures and contusions, 19 (of which 9 were in Brompton);
burns and scalds, 2; poison, 1; suffocation, 9. Eight of the
deaths from suffocation were those of children (mostly young
infants) under 5 years of age, and 5 of the deaths from fractures,
&c., occurred below this age.
Order 3. Homicide (three deaths.)—Murder 2, and Manslaughter,
1, in the Town sub-district. (For particulars of these
cases, vide section on Inquests, page 40.)
Order 4. Suicide.—Eight deaths (only 1 in Brompton), viz.,
by wounds, 2; poison, 4; hanging and "otherwise " 1 each.
Order 5. Execution 0.
Causes not specified or ill-defined.— Fourteen deaths, (two in
Brompton) have been included under this head, owing to the
impossibility of including them under any other heading.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The only "large public institutions" in this parish at present,
are, (1) the Parish Infirmary and Workhouse, and (2) the Hospital
for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest— the former
being in the Town and the latter in the Brompton registration subdistrict.
With respect to the smaller public, or quasi-public,
institutions—such as the Barracks and the various homes, nurseries,
&c., with one exception they do not furnish in the aggregate
such a number of deaths as to call for special reference here.
The exception is St. Joseph's House, Portobello Road, Notting
Hill, an extensive charitable institution, containing some 250