View report page

22
TABLE H.
Pulmonary Deaths, exclusive of Phthisis.
Quarter ending.
Children
under five
years.
Persons
from five
to
fifty-five.
Persons
above
fifty-five.
Total.
Mean
Temperature.
Rainfall
in inches.
March
92
61
102
255
39.8
3.2
June
67
24
22
113
52.4
5.0
September
46
15
21
82
61.4
8.8
December
82
28
38
148
44.0
12.8
Total, 1880
287
128
183
250
598
49.4 Fah.
Mean
Temperature
for Year 1880.
29.8
Total, 1879
370
135
755
46.2
Mean
Temperature
for Year 1879.
30.10
CHILDBIRTH.
Nineteen women died in childbed, being one less than last year, but still
a very large number. Of these Peritonitis caused 4 deaths; Puerperal
Fever, 2; Phthisis and Exhaustion, 3; Placenta Previa and Haemorrhage,
4; Retained Placenta (eight days), 1; Small Pox, Pyœmia, and Gangrene
of leg, each 1; the others were certified simply as Childbirth.
INQUESTS.
During the year 203 inquests were held, showing a per centage of 6.96
upon the total number of deaths. The proportion for the whole of London
was 6.5. Of this total number of inquests 86 were violent deaths, and the
circumstances of the others were such as to necessitate an enquiry into
the manner in which they had occurred.
VIOLENT DEATHS.
These, 87 in number, were all, with one exception (a case of Traumatic
Abscess of the Brain) returned by the Coroner. One was Homicide, a