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CHILDBIRTH.
Twenty-two women died from the various diseases and accidents of
childbirth. Two of these deaths were caused by Puerperal Fever,
three by Puerperal Convulsions; four by Hœmorrhage; and the
remainder by exhaustion, Pyœmia, etc., following prolonged or difficult
Parturition.
WASTING DISEASES OF INFANTS.
The deaths from diseases included in this group numbered 267, a
mortality of 31.3 per cent. of the total infantile deaths, and a rate
of 50.8 per thousand births.
INQUESTS.
The number of inquests held by the Coroner was 219, about seven
per cent. of the total deaths; the number of deaths returned as
violent was 94, about three per cent. of the total deaths. Seventyseven
were from accident or negligence, two were homicide, and
fifteen suicides.
The two cases of homicide were a girl killed by a pistol shot carelessly
fired, and a woman aged 39, whose skull was fractured in Bellhaven
Street. The Coroner's jury brought in a verdict of wilful
murder against some person or persons unknown, but the perpetrator
of the crime has not yet been discovered.
Of the fifteen suicides, seven men and one woman hanged themselves;
four took poison, two strychnine, one carbolic acid, and one
oxalic acid; the remaining three were cases of cut throat.
Forty-seven persons were suffocated; all but seven were infants,
aged less than twelve months; of these, one infant was choked by
the contents of its feeding bottle, and another by a piece of crust.
Fifteen deaths were uncertified; ten of these were returned by
midwives as premature births, and three as convulsions.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The number of Institution deaths registered was 51G ; of these,
371 happened in the Workhouse (220 males, 151 females); 89 in the
City London of Hospital for diseases of the chest, Victoria Park (63
males, 25 females); 37 in Bethnall House (16 males, 21 females); 19
in the Mildmay Mission Hospital (twelve males and seven females).