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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 144 deaths; 111 under five
years of age, and 127 and 17 in the Town and Brompton subdistricts,
respectively. The diseases named are—Debility,
Atrophy, Inanition 105 deaths (all but one under five years, and
98 under one year); Mortification, 5; Tumour, 2; Abscess and
Hœmorrhage, 3 each; Causes not specified or ill-defined, 26.
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 (375), and at the Brompton Consumption
Hospital (69), 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
(391), at the Brompton Consumptive Hospital (4),
and at outlying institutions (213), were 608, or 21.2 per cent.
on total deaths, the percentage proportion of deaths in public
institutions in the Metropolis generally being 21.
The Parish Infirmary and Workhouse.—I am indebted
to Mr. H. Percy Potter, Medical Superintendent to the
Infirmary and Medical Officer to the Workhouse, for the
statistics of mortality at these important institutions. The