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cation. It includes the causes of 91 deaths; 78 under five
years of age; 72 and 19 in the Town and Brompton subdistricts
respectively. The Diseases named are—Debility,
Atrophy, Inanition, 75 deaths (all under five years, and 68
under one year); and Hemorrhage, 1; Causes not specified or
ill-defined (or such as find no place in Classes I.—VII.), 15 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-parishioners at the Marylebone
Infirmary, Notting Hill (403), and at the Brompton Consumption
Hospital (101), 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
(328), at the Brompton Consumption Hospital (8),
and at outlying institutions, etc., (234), were 570, or 23.6 per
cent, on total deaths, the percentage proportion of deaths in
public institutions in the Metropolis generally being 23.3.
The Parish Infirmary and Workhouse.— I am indebted
to Mr. IT 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 1889 were 328, compared with 417, 391 and 352
in the three previous years, and were equal to nearly 13.6 per
cent, on total deaths. Mr. Potter informs me that the actual
deaths in the year were 327, the quarterly numbers being