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between 20 and 40, 75; between 40 and 60, (oldest 57), 25.
Five of the deaths were of parishioners, and are included in
Table 3 (Appendix). Seventy-three of the deceased had
previously resided in the Metropolis; 18 in the suburbs
or Metropolitan counties, and 30 in more distant parts of the
country. The causes of death as registered, were; Phthisis
(consumption or decline) alone, in 93 cases; Phthisis
associated with other forms of tubercular disease in 3 cases,
and with lung diseases in 7 cases; other visceral diseases,
chiefly of the heart and lungs, in 18 cases.
Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill.—At this institution,
which is larger than the parish infirmary, 446 deaths of
non-parishioners were registered, but they are not included
in Table 3 (Appendix). They comprised males 238, and
females 208; 233 of the deceased were aged 60 and upwards,
and 8 were under five years, including 7 under one year of
age. Six deaths from zymotic diseases, and 6 from violence,
were registered ; inquests were held in nine cases.
DEATHS NOT CERTIFIED.
Twenty deaths, (0.76 of all deaths registered), were
returned as "not certified," the deceased persons not having
been attended in their last illness by any registered medical
practitioner. The proportion of not certified deaths in
London was 1.22 per cent. In three cases, unregistered
male practitioners had been in attendance upon the deceased,
and in two cases, (infants), midwives: in the remaining 15
cases there had been "no medical attendant." The ages
of the deceased were :—under 1, 6; between 1 and 5, 2;
between 5 and 60, 6; 60 and upwards, 6. The causes of
death, as registered, were:—wasting and debility of infants,
2; premature birth, 2; injury during birth, 1; old age,
4; whooping cough and diarrhoea, 1 each; epilepsy and
convulsions, one each; phthisis, 1; diseases of the lungs, 3;
sprained ankle, 1; "unknown," (one of a child found dead in
a public place), 2.