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Only 3 deaths occurred in the hospital, viz. 1 mother,
and 2 children, the adult patient aged 19 died from
"septicaemia after labour," the two children were born
prematurely and lived but a few days.
Attention shoidd be drawn to the fact that, under the
continued antiseptic treatment in the hospital, the mortality
amongst the mothers has decreased each year.
In the out-patients' department there were 542 deliveries,
and 3 deaths (adults).
The Infants' Home, 35, Great Coram Street.
Five infants described as children of "female domestic
servants," died in this home during the year.
The causes of death were "diarrhœa" 3, "convulsions" 1,
and "atrophy "1.
The Bloomsbury Dispensary, Streatham Street.
The number of new cases treated at this dispensary in
1883 was 52,955, a slight increase on the previous year.
715 patients were visited at their own homes: the casualties
were 1,297. 68 of the cases terminated fatally.
Zymotic Diseases.
The deaths in England and Wales from the seven principal
zymotic diseases, viz., small-pox, measles, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, whooping-cough, fever, and diarrhoea, were
58,972, equal to a death-rate of 2.20 per 1,000.
The deaths from these diseases in London were 10,801,
equal to a death-rate of 2.7 per 1,000.
The deaths in St. Giles District were 127, equal to a
death-rate of 2.7 per 1,000, against 3.3 per 1,000 for the
preceding year.