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Eighteen inquests were held: the cause of death was natural in seven cases, and injury,
in some form, in 11 cases.
The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.—In the Kensington portion
of the Brompton Hospital there were 112 deaths, including four of parishioners. The remaining
108 deaths, of non-parishioners, are excluded from the borough statistics.
St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill.—At this institution 470 deaths were registered,
all of which, excepting two of parishioners, are excluded from the borough statistics.
St. Joseph's House, Notting Hill.—The deaths at this quasi-public institution, with
the exception of one, of a parishioner, are excluded from our statistics. They were 33 in number.
Outlying Public Institutions.—The deaths of parishioners at public institutions, etc., without
the borough, which in the three preceding years had numbered 286, 321, and 283, were 321 in 1901.
All of these deaths are included in the borough statistics. The deaths occurred at the several
institutions as follows:—
St. Mary's Hospital 50 London Hospital 1
St. George's Hospital 46 National Hospital 1
West London Hospital 12 Royal Chest Hospital 1
Middlesex Hospital 8 St. Saviour's Hospital 1
St. Thomas's Hospital 4 Samaritan Free Hospital 1
Charing Cross Hospital 3 Hostel of God 3
University Hospital 3 Friedenheim 3
Guy's Hospital 1 Boy's Home, Regent's Park Road 1
Westminster Hospital 1 British Home for Incurables 1
Western Hospital 29 St. Pelagio's Creche 1
North-Western Hospital 11 H.M. Prison, Pentonville 1
Grove Hospital
5 Chelsea Workhouse 2
South-Western Hospital 2 Chelsea Infirmary 10
South-Eastern Hospital 1 Fulham Infirmary 2
1 Hospital Ship " C'astalia" 1 Paddington Infirmary 1
London Fever Hospital 1 St. George's Infirmary 1
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea 6 Hanwell Asylum 14
Brompton Hospital (south wing) 2 Dartford Asylum 9
Children's Hospital, Paddington 10 Banstead Asylum 8
Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street 1 Claybury Asylum 6
Victoria Hospital 2 Colney Hatch Asylum 4
German Hospital 4 Leavesden Asylum 3
French Hospital3 Darenth Asylum 2
Royal Free Hospital 3 Manor Asylum, Epsom 2
Queen Charlotte's Hospital3 Caterham Asylum 1
Bethlem Hospital 2 Camber well House Asylum 1
Belgrave Hospital 1 Hoxton House Asylum 1
Convent Hospital 1
Home Hospital, Fitzroy Square 1
Hospital for Women, Euston Road 1 301
Italian Hospital, Queen's Square 1
Other 20 deaths occurred without the borough, viz., two of females by drowning in the Thames
and Serpentine, and two of males by drowning in the Thames and the Grand Junction Canal
respectively; three of males, and one of a female in the streets ; three of males on railway premises;
one of a male at a hotel; and six of females and two of males on private premises.
Deaths from diseases of the zymotic class occurred at public institutions without the borough,
as follows :—Western Hospital, 26 (diphtheria, 15; scarlet fever, 7; enteric fever, 3; typhus fever, 1);
North-Western Hospital, 11 (diphtheria, 7; scarlet fever, 2; enteric fever, 2); Grove Hospital, 5
(diphtheria,4; scarlet fever, 1); Children's Hospital, Paddington, 3 (diphtheria, 1; diarrhoea, 1; whooping-cough,
1); St. Mary's Hospital, 2 (diphtheria, 1; diarrhœa, 1); St. George's Hospital, 1 (diarrhœa);
Fulham Infirmary, 1 (enteric fever); South-Western Hospital, 1 (scarlet fever); Hospital Ship
" Castalia," 1 (small-pox).
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
There was no death in the borough that was not certified either by a registered medical
practitioner or by a coroner. In England and Wales the deaths not certified were 1.8 per cent. of
total deaths ; the proportion in London was 0.3.
The subject of uncertified deaths was considered, in the session of 1893, by a Select Committee
of the House of Commons, appointed " to enquire into the sufficiency of the existing
law as to the disposal of the dead, for securing an accurate record' of the causes of death in all