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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1893
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year 1893
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| St. George's Hospital | 40 | Royal Hospital, Waterloo Road | 1 |
| University College Hospital | 8 | St. Saviour's Hospital | 1 |
| West London Hospital | 7 | Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road | 1 |
| Middlesex Hospital | 6 | General Lying-in Hospital | 1 |
| King's College Hospital | 5 | Cheyne Hospital | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 3 | Hospital for Epilepsy, Portland Terrace | 1 |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 2 | ||
| Westminster Hospital | 2 | St. Camilo's Hospital | 1 |
| St. Thomas's Hospital | 1 | Private Hospital, Weymouth Street | 1 |
| North-West London Hospital | 3 | St. Elizabeth's Home | 2 |
| Brompton Hospital (South Wing) | 7 | St. Peter's Home, Kilburn | 1 |
| Western Hospital | 44 | Friedenheim House of Peace | 1 |
| North-Western Hospital | 26 | St. Luke's House, Osnaburgh Street | 1 |
| South-Western Hospital | 5 | ||
| Northern Hospital | 3 | St. Pœlagio's Creche | 1 |
| London Fever Hospital | 3 | Fulham Infirmary | 1 |
| Hospital Ship "Atlas" | 5 | Wormwood Scrubbs Prison | 2 |
| " Fountain" Fever Hospital | 2 | H.M. Prison. Holloway | 1 |
| " Red Cross " Ambulance Steamer | 1 | Offices of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children | 1 |
| Queen Charlotte's Hospital | 6 | ||
| Hospital for Women, Chelsea | 5 | Caterham Asylum | 7 |
| Children's Hospital,Great Ormonde Street | 4 | Darenth Asylum | 6 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 5 | ||
| Children's (Victoria) Hospital | 3 | Han well Asylum | 4 |
| Convent Hospital | 2 | Leavesden Asylum | 4 |
| Bethlem Hospital | 2 | Banstead Asylum | 3 |
| Homoeopathic Hospital | 2 | Colney Hatch Asylum | 1 |
| French Hospital | 1 | Ilford Asylum | 1 |
| German Hospital | 1 | Hoxton House Asylum | 1 |
| German Lying-in Hospital | 1 | 312 | |
| Home Hospital, Fitzroy Square | 1 | ||
| North London Consumption Hospital |
The deaths of six parishioners, in addition to the above,
were recorded as follows : three males, by drowning, two in
the Thames, at Hammersmith and Wandsworth, and one in
the Grand Junction Canal at Haddington ; a male and a female,
from accidental injuries, whilst being conveyed to St. George's
and St. Mary's Hospitals respectively ; and a male, who died
suddenly, in Praed Street, Paddington.
Deaths from diseases of the zymotic class, occurred at
public institutions without the parish, as follows: Western
(Asylums Board) Hospital 43 (scarlet fever 25, diphtheria
17, and enteric fever 1); North-Western Hospital, 25
(diphtheria 18, and scarlet fever 7); St. George's Hospital,
9 (diphtheria 7, enteric fever 1, and measles 1);
Hospital Ship " Atlas," 5 (small-pox); St. Mary's Hospital 4,