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The 130 deaths were equal to an annual death-rate
of 21.2 per 1,000, compared with a death-rate of 21.4, the
average for the preceding three years.
The 50 deaths which occurred at Cleveland Street Sick
Asylum are excluded from this calculation.
23 notifications of infectious cases were received, viz.,
erysipelas 22, and diphtheria 1.
2.-The French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue.
This institution, which is situated within the district,
continues to give valuable medical and surgical assistance
to the sick poor, especially to the numerous foreigners who
are located in Soho and the neighbourhood.
During the past year, 42 deaths, occurred in the
hospital; of these, 37 were non-parishioners.
Five were infantile deaths and 5 were those of old
people.
There was no zymotic death, and only one slight case
of infectious disease was notified.
The majority of the deaths were caused from diseases
of the heart and lungs.
3.—The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street.
The Medical Report for the year 1898 states "that
269 women were delivered in the wards of the hospital
without any maternal mortality, and during the same