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Uncertified Deaths.
Only 5 deaths were registered as "uncertified," against
11 for the previous year, and an average of 6; 3 of the
deceased persons were attended by midwives, and 2 by
medical students.
No legislation has yet been made on this important
subject. No less than 1,051 deaths in London were
registered as " uncertified " during the past year.
The Infants' Home, No. 35, Great Coram Street.
4 deaths occurred at this nursery of infants under 3
months of age, described as children of " female domestic
servants":—
2 died from diarrhoea ; 1 from struma, scrofula ; and 1
from debility.
The British Lying.in Hospital, Endell Street,
Miss Freeman, the able matron of this institution, informs
me that, during the year 1881, 160 poor women were
delivered in the hospital of 163 children, of whom 64 were
males, and 99 females.
3 mothers were confined with twins. Among the inpatients
6 of the children, or 3.75 per cent. of the whole
number, were still.born, and among the out.patients 14, or
2.82 per cent.
There were 8 deaths among the in.patients, viz. : a
female, aged 25 years, from puerperal septicoemia; 4
children from premature birth ; 2 from convulsions; and
1 from patency of the foramen ovale.