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16 in the suburbs or Metropolitan counties, and 33 in more distant
parts of the country. The causes of death as registered, were
Phthisis (consumption or decline) alone, in 78 cases; phthisis
associated with other forms of tubercular disease in 9 cases, and
with other visceral diseases, chiefly of the lungs and heart in 12
cases; other tubercular diseases 5 cases; and diseases of the
lungs and heart 5 cases.
St. Joseph's House.—The deaths at this institution were 27,
viz., males 9, and females 18: all but two at ages over 60. The
fatal diseases were, of the brain and nervous system, including
paralysis, 15 ; of the heart and lungs, 6; other diseases, 6. A
female child aged 2, belonging to St. George's Parish, died at St.
Elizabeth's Home, Portobello Road.
Marylebone Infirmary.—At this large institution, 129 deaths
of non-parishioners took place which are not included in our
statistics, viz., males 58, and females 71. Sixty-three of the
deceased were 60 years of age and upwards. Four deaths from
zymotic diseases occurred, viz., from diarrhea, 2; enteric fever, and
whooping cough, each 1; inquests were held in 3 cases, the verdict
returned being natural causes, in two cases, and violence in the
third: there was a second death from violence, registered as
melancholia, bum of arm.
DEATHS NOT CERTIFIED.
Seven deaths were returned as "not certified," the deceased
having been attended in their last illness by unregistered practitioners
: only two of the deceased had been attended by persons
professing to have medical knowledge, viz., unqualified assistants
of medical men; in the other five cases, of infants a few hours
or days old, midwives had furnished the particulars of the cause
of death. In other 22 cases there had been " no medical attendant."
Nearly all the foregoing cases were reported to the Coroner,
who, after a review of the circumstances as reported to him by
his officer, deemed it unnecessary to hold inquests. In 9 of the
27 cases above referred to, the cause of death was brain disease;