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CHILDBIRTH.
Twenty women died other in childbed or from some of the diseases
resulting from it. Of these six died from Hoemorrhage. One was the
subject of enquiry by the Coroner: the jury returned a verdict that
there was groat neglect on the part of the midwife in attendance.
Four had Puerperal Convulsions and six Puerperal Fever. Exhaustion
from prolonged labour caused three deaths; and one was the
result of laceration of the vagina, followed by Peritonitis.
WASTING DISEASES OF INFANTS.
The wasting diseases of infants, a group which includes atrophy
and debility, want of breast milk and premature birth, caused 196
deaths, a mortality of 22.7 per cent, of the total infantile deaths, giving
a rate of 36.4 per thousand births.
INQUESTS.
The Coroner hold 205 inquests, nearly seven per cent., or one in
fourteen, of the total deaths. Tho proportion for the Metropolis was
almost identical. The violent deaths numbered 86, nearly three per
cent., or about one to thirty-four of the total mortality. Seventyeight
were from accident or negligence. There were eight suicides,
four of whom (all men) terminated their existence by hanging; two
also (males) were cases of cut-throat; and two women took poison.
Forty-three infants were suffocated.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Sixteen deaths were uncertified; all were those of infants who died
a few hours after birth; and the cause of death was in most instances
returned by the attendant midwife as premature birth.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The number of persons who died in Hospital in Bethnal Green was
512; of these 361 happened in the Workhouse (226 males and 135
females), 80 in the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest,
Victoria Park (55 males and 25 females), 44 in Bethnall House
Lunatic Asylum (29 males and 15 females), and 23 in the Mildmay
Mission Hospital (13 males and 10 females).