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DEATHS IX PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The only "large public institution" within the Parish
in which we are direccly 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 nonparishioners
at the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill (613),
and at Brompton Consumption Hospital (134), 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 (517), at the Brompton Consumption
Hospital (6), and at outlying institutions, &c. (250),
were 773, or 25.2 per cent, on total deaths, the percentage
proportion of deaths in public institutions in the Metropolis
generally being 25.6.
The Parish Infirmary and Workhouse.— I am
indebted to Mr. H. Percy Potter, Medical Superintendent of
the Infirmary and Medical Officer to the Workhouse, for the
statistics of mortality at these important institutions. The
deaths registered in 1891, including a few of non-parishioners,
were 523, compared with 352, 328 and 394 in the
three previous years, and were equal to nearly 17 per
cent, on total deaths. The quarterly numbers were
190, 128, 86 and 119, so that 309 deaths occurred in the first
and fourth (or cold) quarters, and 214 in the second and third
(or warm) quarters. The deaths included 278 of males and
245 of females. The ages at death were: under one year, 71