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Deaths not certified.
Five only of the 1,199 Registered Deaths are returned as noncertified
cases.
In some districts many more deaths are returned as uncertified,
so that this district appears to he in a more satisfactory state, but
there ought to be no uncertified deaths.
Mortality in the Workhouse.
In 1875 151 deaths took place in the Workhouse, against 187
in 1874.
By a recent regulation of the Local Government Board, the
sick are removed from the Workhouse to the Central Sick Asylum.
District in Cleveland Street. This arrangement reduces the number
of deaths at the Workhouse.
I have to thank the different officers of the Workhouse for their
kindness and attention to me whilst seeking information from their
various books.
The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street.
During the year, there were 167 poor women delivered in this
Hospital, who gave birth to 82 males and 85 females, a total of 167
children, 3 of whom (by previous residence of the mother) belonged
to St. George, Bloomsbury, 10 to St. Giles South, 9 to St. Giles
North, and 145 to various other Metropolitan districts, and allowance
is made for them in the Table of Births, No. 4.
No deaths occurred to any of the women during labour, but one
of them died some days after confinement from Septicemia.
No woman was delivered of twins in the Hospital during the year.