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Deaths in Public Institutions.
(Within the District.)
The Workhouse, Endell Street.
The average number of inmates in the Workhouse during
1892 was 612.
The number of deaths was 98, including 15 nonparishioners.
To these must be added 75 deaths at Cleveland
Street Sick Asylum, giving a total of 173 deaths, and
corresponding to an annual death-rate of 28.2 per 1,000,
and no less than 15.7 per 1,000 lower than the rate of the
preceding year.
The French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue.
There were 39 deaths from all causes, 35 were deaths of
non-parishioners admitted into the hospital for treatment
from various outlying parishes in the Metropolis;
29 of the deaths occurred at 25 years of age and upwards,
and of these 17 resulted from diseases of the lungs
and air passages. The cases of small-pox which were
notified from the hospital will be mentioned under the
heading Small-pox — Zymotic diseases.
The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street.
During the year 153 poor women were delivered in the
hospital without any fatality occurring to them.
The total number of children delivered was 153, of whom
1 died from deformity, 4 were still-born, and 6 were found
to have been dead before delivery.