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91
This equals an annual death-rate of 22.4 per 1,000.
The 50 deaths at Cleveland Street Sick Asylum areexcluded
from this calculation.
The only disease notified was erysipelas, of which there
was 12 cases.
2.—The French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue.
The number of deaths in the Hospital during the year
was 39. Of these 38 were non-parishioners, brought in for
treatment from various parts of London.
There was only one infantile death, and no death from
zymotic disease. The majority of the deaths occurred
between the ages of 25 and 65, and were chiefly caused
from diseases of the heart and lungs.
3.—The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street.
The Hospital Staff, in their annual Report to the
Committee of Management, state that during the year 331
women were delivered in the wards without any maternal
death, and during the same period there was an entire
absence of puerperal fever.
The total number of children delivered was 333, two of
the labours resulting in twin birth. One of the children
was still-born, and 12 of the infants died from convulsions
and prematurity.
In the out-patient department 419 were delivered in
their own homes.
Operative assistance was necessary in fourteen cases,,
and of these death resulted in two instances. Twins occurred
four times and triplets once. Ten infants were born dead.