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Six inquests were held; the cause of death was natural in four cases, and injury in some
form in two cases.
The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.—In the Kensington
portion of the Brompton Hospital there were 75 deaths, including one of a parishioner. The
remaining 74 deaths, of non-parishioners, are excluded from the borough statistics.
St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill.—At this institution 563 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 8 of parishioners, are excluded from the borough statistics : they were 28 in number.
Outlying Public Institutions.—The deaths of parishioners at public institutions etc.,
without the borough, which in the three preceding years had numbered 321, 283, and 321,
respectively, were 315 in 1902. All of these deaths are included in the borough statistics. The
deaths occurred at the several institutions as follows:—
St. Mary's Hospital 48
St. George's Hospital 23
West London Hospital 21
Charing Cross Hospital 8
Middlesex Hospital 6
Westminster Hospital 6
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 3
St. Thomas's Hospital 3
King's College Hospital 2
Guy's Hospital 1
Western Hospital 27
North-Western Hospital 7
Grove Hospital 3
Long Reach Hospital 3
Northern Hospital 1
Hospital Ship "Atlas" 3
'Hospital Ship " Castalia" 3
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea 3
Brompton Hospital (south wing) 5
Children's Hospital, Paddington 12
Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde
Street 2
Victoria Hospital for Children 2
French Hospital 3
Bethlem Hospital 3
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 3
Women's Hospital, Chelsea 2
Samaritan Free Hospital 1
Convent Hospital 1
Hospital for Women, Euston Road 1
Metropolitan Hospital 1
North-West London Hospital 1
Royal Free Hospital 1
St. Saviour's Hospital 1
Friedenheim 3
Hostel of God 1
Hostel of St. John and St. Elizabeth 2
St. Peter's Home 1
Home of the Guardian Angels, Charlotte
Street 1
New Grove House 1
Holborn Workhouse 1
Fulham Infirmary 1
Paddington Infirmary 1
St. George's Infirmary 1
Banstead Asylum 18
Hanwell Asylum 15
Colney Hatch Asylum 10
Claybury Asylum 6
Manor Asylum, Epsom 6
Dartford Asylum 4
Cane Hill Asylum 4
Leavesden Asylum 3
Caterham Asylum 1
Darenth Asylum 1
Peckham House Asylum 1
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Other 22 deaths occurred without the borough, viz.: two of females by drowning in the
Thames and the Grand Junction Canal respectively; and one of a male in the Grand Junction
Canal; five of males and one of a female in the streets; one each of a male on the railway, on a
steamship, at Lord's Cricket Ground, and in Kensington Gardens; and seven 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 (scarlet fever, 13; diphtheria, 8; enteric fever, 4; small pox, 1);
North-Western Hospital, 7 (scarlet fever, 5; diphtheria, 1; enteric fever, 1); St. Mary's Hospital, 6
(diphtheria, 3; enteric fever, 2; diarrhœa, 1); Long Reach Hospital, 3 (small pox); Hospital Ship
"Atlas," 3 (smallpox); Hospital Ship "Castalia," 3 (smallpox)', Grove Hospital, 3 (cnteric fever);
Children's Hospital, Paddington, 2 (diarrhœa); Northern Hospital, 1 (scarlet fever); Westminster
Hospital, 1 (enteric fever); Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde Street, 1 (diarrhœa); Claybury
Asylum, 1 (diarrhœa); New Grove House, Hampstead, 1 (measles).
UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Only one death occurred in the borough that was "not certified," either by a registered
medical practitioner or by a coroner: it was that of a male, aged 33, an out-patient at Brompton
Consumption Hospital: the cause of death was phthisis. 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 cases, and