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out in my last annual report (page 70). These recommendations
having been approved by the Council, the Public Control
Committee were " authorised to attend as a deputation before
the Lord Chancellor in support of the amendment of the law
relating to coroners' inquests in the County of London, in
accordance with the recommendations referred to," and, were
directed to " urge the advisableness of paying a juryman
a sum sufficient to compensate a workman for actual loss of
time incurred in performing that public duty, and of making it
compulsory that coroners' juries should be summoned by rota."
INQUESTS.
Two hundred and twenty-two inquests were held on
parishioners, including 31 at places without the parish, mostly
at public institutions to which the deceased persons had been
removed for treatment. The cause of death is stated to have
been ascertained by post-mortem examination in 145 cases.
Twenty-three inquests were held on the bodies of nonparishioners
who had died in Kensington. Of the 202
inquests in the parish, 187 were held at the Coroner's Court
at the Town Hall, 14 at the St. Marylebone Infirmary, and one
at the Parish Infirmary. It is now some years since an inquest
in Kensington was held at a public house.

The suicidal deaths (six of which belong to the Brompton subdistrict)
comprised 9 of males and 7 of females.
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