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3. Suicide.— Of the 10 suicidal deaths, 5 occurred in each
of the sub-districts. Poison was the lethal agent in 2 cases;
Drowning in 1; Hanging in 3; Cut, Stab, in 3; Gunshot Wound
in 1.
Class 8.—Deaths from Ill-defined and not Specified
Causes.
This Class has acquired increased importance in the new
classification, owing to the transfer of a certain number of "illdefined"
causes of death from other positions in the old classification.
It includes the causes of 145 deaths; 110 under five years
of age, and 130 and 15 in the Town and Brompton sub-districts
respectively. The diseases named are—Dropsy, 1 death;
Debility, Atrophy, Inanition, 102, (all but one under five years,
and 97 under one year); Mortification, 7; Tumour, 1; Abscess,
7; Hœmorrhage, 3; Sudden Death, cause not ascertained, 2;
Causes not specified or ill-defined, 22.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The only "large public institution" within the parish in
which we are directly interested, is the Parish Infirmary and
Workhouse, situated in the Town sub-district. There are several
minor public, or quasi-public, institutions; but, with one exception,
they do not furnish occasion for special notice. The excepted
institution is St. Joseph's House, Portobello Road, Notting Hill
—a Roman Catholic Home for aged poor persons of both sexes,
brought from various parts, largely from Ireland; but the
Registrar-General does not class it as a "public institution."
The deaths of non-parishioners at the Marylebone Infirmary,
Notting Hill (439), and at the Brompton Consumption Hospital
(128), are excluded from our statistics, but will furnish occasion
for a few remarks later on. The deaths of parishioners registered
at the Parish Infirmary and Workhouse (355), at the Brompton
Conumption Hospital (12), and at outlying institutions (194),
were 561, or 20.2 per cent. on total deaths, the percentage proportion
of deaths in public institutions in the Metropolis generally
being 21.8.