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defined causes of death from other positions in the old classification.
It includes the causes of deaths, 152; 114 under five
years of age, and 115 and 37 in the Town and Brompton subdistricts,
respectively. The Diseases named are—Debility,
Atrophy, Inanition, 100 deaths (all but one under five years, and
99 under one year); Dropsy, 2; Mortification, 4; Abscess, 3;
and Haemorrhage, 2; Causes not specified or ill-defined (or such
as find no place in Table 8), 41 deaths.
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-parishioneis at the Marylebone
Infirmary, Notting Hill (349). and at the Brompton Consumption
Hospital (106), 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
(352), at the Brompton Consumption Hospital (8),
and at outlying institutions, etc. (230), were 590, or 20.8 per cent.
on total deaths, the percentage proportion of deaths in public
institutions in the Metropolis generally, being 22.5.
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 deaths
registered in 1888 were 352 compared with 355, 417, and 391
in the three previous years, and were equal to nearly 12.5 per