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WASTING DISEASES OF INFANTS.
This group, which includes, Atrophy and Debility, want of
Breast-milk, and Premature Birth, accounts for 208 deaths; a proportion
of fourteen and a half per cent. of the total infantile
mortality, giving a rate of 41.7 per thousand births.
INQUESTS.
The Coroner held 221 inquests, 7.5 per cent., or one in twelve
and a half of the total deaths. The violent deaths numbered 90,
three per Cent. of the total deaths. Seventy-five were from accident
or negligence; and thirteen were suicides; of these, two women,
and four men, hanged themselves, four took poison, two men and
two women, (three of them took oxalic acid, and one cyanide of
potassium), one man threw himself in front of an advancing train,
and was cut to pieces, and another shot himself after attempting to
murder his employer. All the suicides were, in the opinion of the
Coroner's juries, of unsound mind at the time they destroyed
themselves.
One death was returned as from the effects of Lead poisoning,
and one from Chloroform administered during a surgical operation.
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Eleven deaths were uncertified, most of which were cases of
either premature birth, or of Convulsions a few hours after birth.
In nearly every instance, the mothers had been attended by
midwives.
DEATHS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The number of persons, who died in Hospital in Bethnal Green,
was 598; of these 418 died in the Workhouse (245 males and 173
females), 98 in the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the
Chest, Victoria Park (74 males and 24 females), and 25 in the
Mildmay Mission Hospital (19 males and 6 females).