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Class 7.—Deaths From Violence.
Sixty deaths, including 26 under five years of age, are distributed
over the four orders comprised in this class, 19 of them
belonging to the Brompton sub-district.
1. Accident or Negligence.—Total deaths 47, including
14 in Brompton; 25 under five years of age, viz., from Fractures
and Contusions, 18; Burn, Scald, 6 ; Poison, 2 ;
Drowning, 2 ; Suffocation (generally of infants " overlaid ") 15,
including 13 under one year ; " Otherwise," 4.
2. Homicide.—Murder, 1.
3. Suicide. —Of the 12 suicidal deaths, seven occurred in the
Town sub-district, and 5 in Brompton. Poison was the lethal
agent in 3 cases only ; Hanging in 5 : Cut, Stab in 3 ; " Other-
wise," 1.
Class 8.— Deaths from Ill-defined and not Specified
Causes. —This class has assumed great importance in the new arrangement,
owing to the transfer of a large number of diseases
from other positions in the old classification : 119 deaths, viz., 102
and 17 in the Town and Brompton sub-districts respectively, including
108 under five years of age, are embraced in it, the
causes, and numbers, of deaths being as follows :—Dropsy, 3 ;
Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, 97 (all under five years, 80 under
one year) ; Mortification, 3 ; Abscess, 3, and Hemorrhage, 4 ;
Sudden deaths (causes not ascertained). 0. Causes not specified
or ill-defined, 9.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The "large public institutions" in which we are locally
interested are the Parish Infirmary and Workhouse in the
Town sub-district, and the Hospital for Consumption and
Diseases of the Chest, in the Brompton sub-district. There
are numerous minor public, or quasi-public institutions, but,
with one exception, they do not furnish occasion for notice.
The excepted institution is St. Joseph's House, Portobello
Road, Notting Hill—a Roman Catholic Home for some 250