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100 in 1870 ; 91 in 1871. Three persons died of Small Pox in
the Hospitals out of the Parish. Amongst the most fatal forms
of epidemic disease, whooping cough ranks high, having
destroyed 23 young children in 3 months. The 13 fever cases
are not well marked, being more or less complicated with local
disease, described as bilious, purpura, mania, &c. Cases of
Small Pox still linger in the Parish, but the epidemic is
declining. 75 deaths are recorded in the group of consumptive
or wasting maladies; besides 97 from the inflammatory and
other chest diseases, one-third of this latter are in young
children, Bronchitis and Pneumonia alone killing 33 children
during the three present winter months.
There were 50 deaths in St. Mary's Hospiital during the
quarter; 31 in Paddington Workhouse, and 1 in the Lock
Hospital. Inquests were held upon 34 persons, of which 12
were returned as deaths from natural causes; 22 were violent
deaths; such as infanticide, suicide, accidental suffocation,
drowning, burns, steeet and railway accidents. 18.3 per cent.
of the total deaths were in the Hospital and Workhouse—which
is the general proportion of deaths of persons dying in the
public institutions of the country.